On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 14:25 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > if you hadn't heard of OpenFoam, you had the > option of ignoring the post, or doing a quick check to find out what > it was about (as I said, it took me three seconds) You seem to have missed the point of the complaint, which is that announcements should not force the reader to do extra work in order to get even the most basic information about what's being announced, "basic" meaning the minimum necessary to make a quick decision between "might be interested" and "am not interested". > - what's the point of a long thread castigating the OP??? It would have been a short thread had the OP not tried to justify himself despite being clearly wrong, but of course I'm biased. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org