[sf-lug] ANALYSYS--EXPLANATION Re: request for help re ssh -- sshd login failure

[Asheesh Laroia]

I have experienced the same difficulty reading these replies from Jim and
also was concerned about creating offense. Jim, I hope that you can make
your replies more readable! Until then I will continue to attempt to read
them, but it's rather difficult. You can get a sense of how difficult by
looking at the archived mail:
http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2016q1/011676.html

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:18 AM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Jim Stockford (jim at well.com):
>
> > I try to explain each command in my comments, interspersed below.
>
> I appreciate the effort you go do, in constructing that interspersion:
> I'm guesssing you are doing that entirely manually, which implies a
> semi-heroic editing effort.
>
> I see you use Mozilla Thunderbird.  Back when I used Thunderbird for
> corporate mail, I found that it did decent quoting automatically but
> that its internal text editor was lacking.  I used a Thunderbrd
> extension that permitted use of any arbitrary external editor, and then
> just used vim as that editor.  These days, there is an all-in-one
> solution called Muttator, which you can find here:
> http://www.vimperator.org/muttator
>
> FWIW, though I greatly appreciate the work you put into manual
> construction of replies, please consider using automated tools such as
> Muttator, which would probably greately reduce the amount of work for
> you _and_ render your repsonse messages more legible.  Alas, I find that
> the lack of line breaks in your replies and your extremely unclear and
> eccentric style of quoting to be very difficult to parse at all, Jim.
>
> I certainly didn't want to create offencce, and so haven't been saying
> anything about this, but IMO it's a significant deterrent against even
> trying to parse your replies.
>
>
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