Test2 (was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.)

2008-08-18 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Testing (2). Please ignore. -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.)

Test (was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.)

2008-08-18 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Testing. Please ignore. -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.)

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-18 12:04:35, schrieb Steve C. Lamb: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:01:31PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > I do not believe it, since I am admin a Courier-Imap Server with 73.000 > > users ith 2.8 million legitim messages and 8 million spams per day. > > And a d-u troll. > > > I

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-18 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:01:31PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > I do not believe it, since I am admin a Courier-Imap Server with 73.000 > users ith 2.8 million legitim messages and 8 million spams per day. And a d-u troll. > I would never use mbox for such stuff... and of course, a ma

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-13 14:06:51, schrieb Steve Lamb: > My apologies to Ron, I slapped reply and not reply-to-all and trim. :( > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > That's qmail's fault, not that of Maildir. > > No, that is a design problem in Maildir. Granted I wouldn't want my MTAs I do not believe it, s

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
My apologies to Ron, I slapped reply and not reply-to-all and trim. :( Ron Johnson wrote: > That's qmail's fault, not that of Maildir. No, that is a design problem in Maildir. Granted I wouldn't want my MTAs using a flat file for all its traffic, it makes no sense there for how short li

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:31:06PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/10/08 12:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:38:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 07/09/08 13:26, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> try a different MUA? > >> This is why IMAP should be

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/13/08 04:14, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> Maybe it's because I keep d-u messages is semi-annual history >> folders so directories never get above 10,000 files, but what >> problems do Maildirs have? > >> Needing to open many files i

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Maybe it's because I keep d-u messages is semi-annual history > folders so directories never get above 10,000 files, but what > problems do Maildirs have? > Needing to open many files instead of one? Needing to deal with that many files in any capacity, ever. I've had th

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/08 18:46, Steve Lamb wrote: > Nate Duehr wrote: >> We really gotta get you over to Maildir someday, Steve. ;-) > > Uh, no, thanks. I far prefer mbox's problems to maildir's. Maybe it's because I keep d-u messages is semi-annual history

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Nate Duehr wrote: We really gotta get you over to Maildir someday, Steve. ;-) Uh, no, thanks. I far prefer mbox's problems to maildir's. Then you can back up mail directories with thinks like rdiff and not pull in the whole mbox file into the backup again. Just the new mail. (GRIN)

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-12 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Nate Duehr wrote: > We really gotta get you over to Maildir someday, Steve. ;-) > > Then you can back up mail directories with thinks like rdiff and not > pull in the whole mbox file into the backup again. Just the new > mail. (GRIN) While I do think Maildir is a lot better than mbox, applicati

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-12 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 10, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Steve C. Lamb wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:38:21AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:38:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/09/08 13:26, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: This is why IMAP should be the standard mail store, not mboxes

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Wackojacko wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> Dovecot doesn't do sieve. > There is a plug-in for sieve. > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve > HTH Hell yeah it helps. Hm, they're compiled in by default in Ubuntu, wonder if that means Debian too. Also... http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/i

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-11 Thread Wackojacko
Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Of course, it drops mails directly into Maildir folders, so you'd have to tell Dovcot to use Maildir instead of mbox. But that should not be hard. I was talking about the filters from the client more than the subfolders. Dovecot doesn't do sieve. Th

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Of course, it drops mails directly into Maildir folders, so you'd > have to tell Dovcot to use Maildir instead of mbox. But that should > not be hard. I was talking about the filters from the client more than the subfolders. Dovecot doesn't do sieve. signature.asc Des

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/10/08 12:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:38:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 07/09/08 13:26, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> [snip] >>> try a different MUA? >> This is why IMAP should be the standard mail store,

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/10/08 12:51, Steve C. Lamb wrote: [snip] > > The only thing I miss in that setup, really, is the ability to configure > filters from inside the client and subfolders. I know both are possible if I > switch to another IMAP server. However I

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-10 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:51:01PM -0400, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > The only thing I miss in that setup, really, is the ability to configure > filters from inside the client and subfolders. I know both are possible if > I switch to another IMAP server. However I would lose the flexibility of > s

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-10 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:38:21AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:38:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 07/09/08 13:26, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > This is why IMAP should be the standard mail store, not mboxes in > > "proprietary" locations. > second tha

IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:38:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/09/08 13:26, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [snip] > > > > try a different MUA? > > This is why IMAP should be the standard mail store, not mboxes in > "proprietary" locations. second that. THe convenience is incredible. Case i

Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,09.Jul.08, 12:41:57, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Any idea how to confirm that it's the mail server and not my MUA (SeaMonkey > 1.1.9, which I don't suspect but would want to rule out)? Subscribe a different address (on a different server)? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply

Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/09/08 13:26, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] > > try a different MUA? This is why IMAP should be the standard mail store, not mboxes in "proprietary" locations. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter

Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 12:41:57PM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:33:39AM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > ... > >> > >> P.S. How do I change my debian-user subscription to have the mailing list > >> server send me a copy of my own posts?

Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-09 Thread Barclay, Daniel
I wrote, slightly too quickly: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > ... >>> P.S. How do I change my debian-user subscription to have the mailing >>> list >>> server send me a copy of my own posts? The MajorDomo/SmartList help >>> response >>> message doesn't says anything about changing that setting.

Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-09 Thread Bob Cox
ress 'e' to edit the whole message (in vim in my case) and at the top of the html section there is: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned = by aptitude. Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:33:39AM -0400, Barclay, Daniel = wrote: It

Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/09/08 11:40, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 07/09/08 10:33, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> [snip] >>> Now if I can figure out how to get the mail server configuration fixed .. >> >> Replacing Lookout with Postfix would do the tri

Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-09 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: ... >> P.S. How do I change my debian-user subscription to have the mailing list >> server send me a copy of my own posts? The MajorDomo/SmartList help response >> message doesn't says anything about changing that setting. >> >> (Not getting such copies is part of why I

Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-09 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:33:39AM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: ... >> >> P.S. How do I change my debian-user subscription to have the mailing list >> server send me a copy of my own posts? The MajorDomo/SmartList help response >> message doesn't says anything abou

Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-09 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/09/08 10:33, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > [snip] >> Now if I can figure out how to get the mail server configuration fixed .. > > Replacing Lookout with Postfix would do the trick. Did you mean Exchange? (I thought "Lookout" referred to Outlook, which I'm not using.) >

Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-09 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Chris Davies wrote: >> Barclay, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Why don't you just copy the text and paste it into a message? >> Follows. Notice that even the text/plain part is base64 encoded. > > Thanks. (And thanks t

Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:33:39AM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Chris Davies wrote: > > Barclay, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Why don't you just copy the text and paste it into a message? > > > > Follows. Notice that even the text/plain part is base64 encoded. > > Thanks. (And thank

Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/09/08 10:33, Barclay, Daniel wrote: [snip] > > Now if I can figure out how to get the mail server configuration fixed .. Replacing Lookout with Postfix would do the trick. Might be a bit of an upheaval, though... [snip] > I wonder how long it

getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-09 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Chris Davies wrote: > Barclay, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Why don't you just copy the text and paste it into a message? > > Follows. Notice that even the text/plain part is base64 encoded. Thanks. (And thanks to others who sent me copies.) Now if I can figure out how to get the mail s

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude. - almost done - test 2 of 3

2008-07-08 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/08/2008 10:01 AM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Does this message come across: - with an HTML part? - base64-encoded? Thanks. Daniel [Test 2 of 3: w/ chars; ISO-8859-1 (?)] Yes, there is an HTML part. No, there is no base64-encoding on either the text or HTML parts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude. - almost done - test 2 of 3

2008-07-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/08/08 10:01, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > > Does this message come across: > - with an HTML part? Yes. > - base64-encoded? No. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed

Re: Stunned by aptitude. - almost done - test 3 of 3

2008-07-08 Thread Christer Oldhoff
Hello Daniel, On 2008-07-08, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > > Does this message come across: > - with an HTML part? > - base64-encoded? > Yes to both. Regards, -- Christer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Stunned by aptitude. - almost done - test 2 of 3

2008-07-08 Thread Christer Oldhoff
Hello Daniel, On 2008-07-08, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > > Does this message come across: > - with an HTML part? > - base64-encoded? > Yes to the first. Neither part was base64-encoded. Regards, -- Christer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Stunned by aptitude. - almost done - test 1 of 3

2008-07-08 Thread Christer Oldhoff
Hello Daniel, On 2008-07-08, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > > Does this message come across: > - with an HTML part? > - base64-encoded? > Yes to both. Regards, -- Christer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude. - almost done - test 2 of 3

2008-07-08 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Does this message come across: - with an HTML part? - base64-encoded? Thanks. Daniel [Test 2 of 3: w/ chars; ISO-8859-1 (?)]

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-08 Thread Chris Davies
Barclay, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why don't you just copy the text and paste it into a message? Follows. Notice that even the text/plain part is base64 encoded. Chris >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 8 09:10:00 2008 Path: news.enta.net!news.mediascape.de!newsfeed-0.progon.net!progon.

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El lun, 07-07-2008 a las 17:42 -0500, Mark Allums escribió: > Mark Allums wrote: > > Barclay, Daniel wrote: > > > > > > I suspect that a mail server or gateway between here and there is > > > reformatting > > > my message. > > > > Unlikely. Occam's razor says you are sending that way, and can

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Screw you and the stupid Microsoft shit that FGM uses. I've been trying to gather evidence to show that our mail server (or its configuration) is corrupting messages (turning plain-text messages into HTML messages) and causing problems (e.g., this ta

Re: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread Barclay, Daniel
I wrote: ... > > Somebody please send me a copy of one of these messages that you see > with HTML > and/or base64 encoding. ... Okay, I got a few. Thanks. Note that not all of them are the same regarding the transfer encoding: Most have been base64, but one was something else (I forgot now,

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread Mark Allums
Mark Allums wrote: Barclay, Daniel wrote: > > I suspect that a mail server or gateway between here and there is > reformatting > my message. Unlikely. Occam's razor says you are sending that way, and can't see it with your software ecosystem. I have been wrong before... And also now.

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread Mark Allums
er or gateway between here and there is reformatting my message. You may be right (and I was wrong). From the HTML in your message: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude. Tee-hee. Ooh, I didn't think of that! Exchange! Of course! Mark Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread Mark Allums
Barclay, Daniel wrote: > > I suspect that a mail server or gateway between here and there is > reformatting > my message. Unlikely. Occam's razor says you are sending that way, and can't see it with your software ecosystem. I have been wrong before... > I also suspect that it's related to t

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Ron Johnson wrote: ... > On 07/07/08 17:07, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 07/07/08 16:28, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> ... >> Where the heck are you seeing base64 encoding? >>> Here is a screenprint of an Iceweasel View->"Message Source" of your >> An image? Come on! Why d

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread CaT
hat a mail server or gateway between here and there is reformatting > my message. >From the HTML in your message: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude. Tee-hee. -- "Police noticed some rustling sounds from Linn's bottom area and on closer inspection a roll of cash was found protruding

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/07/08 17:07, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 07/07/08 16:28, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > ... > >>> Where the heck are you seeing base64 encoding? >> >> Here is a screenprint of an Iceweasel View->"Message Source" of your > > A

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 16:52 -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: ... >> What that heck are you talking about? My message was sent in plain >> text, not HTML. > > The message I am replying to, as was the one in question, is HTML, not > plain text. Well, that

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread Barclay, Daniel
I wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: ... >> On 07/07/08 16:28, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > ... > >>> Where the heck are you seeing base64 encoding? >> >> Here is a screenprint of an Iceweasel View->"Message Source" of your > > An image? Come on! Why don't you just copy the text and paste it into a > mess

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/07/08 16:28, Barclay, Daniel wrote: ... >> Where the heck are you seeing base64 encoding? > > Here is a screenprint of an Iceweasel View->"Message Source" of your An image? Come on! Why don't you just copy the text

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/07/08 16:28, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Mark Allums wrote: >> Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> >> > [...] could >> > > be said for your HTML-spewing MUA. >> > >> > What that heck are you talking about? My message was sent in plain >> > text, not >>

Re: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:52:25 -0400 > "Barclay, Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Daniel, > >> What that heck are you talking about? My message was sent in plain >> text, not HTML. > > In fact, Daniel, your messages to this list are coming through as > plain text w

Re: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:52:25 -0400 "Barclay, Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Daniel, > What that heck are you talking about? My message was sent in plain > text, not HTML. In fact, Daniel, your messages to this list are coming through as plain text with an HTML attachment. It would see

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread H.S.
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:03 -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:19 +1000, CaT wrote: >>> I believe that would be the point the original poster was getting >> at. If aptitude is really doing that then it is in the wrong. >

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Thank you for trimming unnecessary quotes. On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 09:31 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/02/08 08:39, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > The main reason I haven't touched those bugs is that there are many > > more important things to work on. This behavior might be annoying when > > it h

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/02/08 08:39, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:09:18AM +0300, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: >> Not really. See #201842 and #479620. Unfortunately Daniel Burrows still >> didn't comment on them. Maybe he

Re: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-02 08:59 +0200, CaT wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:22:59AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Still there should be an option to turn this behavior off, since it is >> very annoying for people with low bandwith and frequent network >> problems. In apt-get you can set APT::Get::List-Cle

Re: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:40:00AM +0800, Magicloud wrote: > Hello, > > When I used aptitude, I noticed that aptitude does not have an > error handling mechanism. When I `aptitude update`, if the network is broken > (like dns problem, route problem), it can not connect to the server, so i

Re: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-01 Thread CaT
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:22:59AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Still there should be an option to turn this behavior off, since it is > very annoying for people with low bandwith and frequent network > problems. In apt-get you can set APT::Get::List-Cleanup=false to avoid > erasing the list files

Re: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-02 06:46 +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 09:40 +0800, Magicloud wrote: >> Hello, >> >> When I used aptitude, I noticed that aptitude does not have >> an error handling mechanism. When I `aptitude update`, if the network >> is broken (like dns problem, route

Re: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 09:40 +0800, Magicloud wrote: > Hello, > > When I used aptitude, I noticed that aptitude does not have > an error handling mechanism. When I `aptitude update`, if the network > is broken (like dns problem, route problem), it can not connect to the > server, so it rep