From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m2FMeorD015387 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:40:50 -0400 Received: from smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.81]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id m2FMeI7k004979 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:40:19 -0400 Message-ID: <47DC504C.2070908@rogers.com> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:40:12 -0400 From: CityK MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux and Kernel Video Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Another very basic question... List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: video4linux-list-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: video4linux-list-bounces@redhat.com List-ID: I'm going to be blunt about something -- you're not being particularly helpful to yourself or the list: - To yourself because you're not being very efficient. - To the list because you're breeching etiquette. Here are a few tips: 1 - instead of breaking threading, and opposed to having a zillion different threads essentially all about the same things, keep your content within one i.e. the original message ... having a contiguous thread will also help those who may, in future, search the lists for similar problems 2 - entitle your threads appropriately -- i.e. "another very basic question ... " or "the final inch" are not very helpful .... the last one in particular, given the thousand or so emails I receive each week from China, Russia etc etc regarding viagra, penis enlargement etc etc etc ... if your goal is to get/reach those who are most capable of helping you, you're certainly going about it the wrong way ... (i) busy people will browse over items that don't seem interesting or appear on the surface to possibly be spam and (ii) please don't ambiguious messages as it just ends up wasting others time in trying to figure out what your question is/relates too (i.e. perfect example: Merc trying to figure out what you were talking about in this thread) 3 - a number of the "basic questions" you have posed are readily answered in the wikis ... so, in posting here about these elementary issues, you've wasted your and my (and others) time too ... - your time because you likely could have read about the solutions quicker then you typed/enquired about them - my and others time because we've already spent considerable time trying to document such elementary questions in the wiki ... and my time again in having to compose this message to draw light to this fact 4 - please don't top post -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list