Time to read this: Was: [Bug-gnubg] Fw: Crash on doubling still

[Achim Mueller]

* Guy Schwartz wrote on 16 Sep 2003:

I hope you don't have a video camera to post a real time animation
of the crash ... Please read this carefully.


Some guidelines for postings on gnubg:

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-bug:
-feature request:
-position:
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or any other meaningfull category in front of your own subject.
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  | Subject: bug: gnubg crashes when loading Snowie .mat file


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Please avoid top quouting and full qouting. What do we mean? A few
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original e-mail in full at the bottom of the reply and put your cursor 
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as top quoting - all the responses come at the top and the reader has to
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mailing lists.

With "good" quoting you will greatly enhance the readability of this
list and our liability to help. Here is an example of qouting how it
should be:


 | Adam  wrote:
 |
 | > Here is a bunch of text by someone. This was originally a 25 line
 | > paragraph, but [snip irrelevant portion]*
 |
 | Now you, as the author, respond to those points, right here
 | If you have more to quote, do so:
 |
 | > Someone still had a couple more points to which you wanted to
 | > reply, so you quote them [but still snip unneded stuff]
 |
 | and respond to it.
 |
 | Your sig then typically follows (but DON'T quote Someone's sig,
 | unless that is what you are responding to... and if so, you'd better
 | make sure that it is relevant to a Lawhead mailing list, or that it
 | is a miniscule fraction of your otherwise completely on-topic post.)


When you answer to a posting, please use _always_ the "reply" or "reply
to list" button. This will keep a thread readable like


 | ---- original posting A
           | --------|-- direct answer to A (B)
                     | --------|-- direct answer to B (C)
                               |----------|-- direct answer to C
           | --------|-- direct answer to A (D)
                     |---------|---direct answer to D


Also write new posts instead of replying to very old posts and
change the subject. This will ensure correct threading.


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Ciao

Achim




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