geisel at 4up
Jul 1, 2005, 7:05 AM
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>As a side note, I do such things (Linux capacity planning) for a living
>and am rather unlikely to deliver major quantities of valuable advice
>for free. Perhaps there is someone in the original poster's part of the
>world who would, though.
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Thanks
>Anthony Gorecki wrote:
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>>(apologies if this is delivered twice)
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>>Geisel,
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>>It's unlikely that someone would take the time to analyze your new computer
>>system and make blind suggestions. You'd have better luck asking a specific
>>question, preferably after doing some research of your own. See
>>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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>>Secondly, extracting some header information from your message:
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>>X-Filtering-Reason: No text/plain message body was present.
>>X-Filtering-Reason: The message contained data that was of an illegal content
>>type.
>>X-Karma: -2
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>>and after briefly scanning your message (in unrendered markup form), here are
>>a few suggestions:
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>>- Send your mail in plain text format. Many of the Gentoo developers and users
>>on this mailing list can read HTML text without having it rendered, but
>>they're more likely to simply send your message on an instantaneous trip to
>>the trash; many mail filters will do this automatically (mine included).
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>>- Don't waste message space by sending virtual business cards (the "illegal
>>content type" mentioned in the second filtering header). If you need to
>>provide information about yourself, add a web address to your signature; save
>>us the trouble of looking at data that's of no interest. If someone wants
>>more information, they'll search the web or visit the website that you've
>>listed in your signature.
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>>- Be concise. Basic information about the computer is useful. A raw dump of
>>data, spanning your entire device subsystem, is not. This is also, from a
>>security standpoint, potentially unwise.
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