[Nut-upsdev] RFC: new variable battery.status

[thomas schorpp]

Am 08.11.2014 um 14:38 schrieb Charles Lepple:
> On Nov 7, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at mittelstaedt.us> wrote:
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>> Now I suppose your going to respond with that immature drivel that's been floating around, lets see if I remember it:
>>
>>> Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>>>     > Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>>>     >> Top-posting.
>>>     >>> What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>>
>> We all must make sure our postings are formatted so your circa 1982 /bin/mail command can still read it <eyeroll>

Guys...

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> Ted,
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> As someone who spends a lot of time digging through the NUT mailing list archives, trying to find the context for previous list discussions, this is actually not such a ridiculous request. I know, we could solve this by moving to some mailing list software that folds previous replies like current mail readers do. But it's a lot of work for not much gain.

That wasn't a "request", it was a "should" *suggestion* passing what I was honoured to learn from kernel mailing lists maintainers Years before.

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> While the text formatting hasn't evolved much since Usenet, I would hope the people have evolved during that same timeframe. You seem to have a lot of UPS experience, and it's a shame that we can't put it to a more constructive use. I'm still open to the doc/FAQ improvements we discussed in July.
>

I WOULD second that, too. And I've not yet got why Ted reacts on me like I had dropped an UPS on his cat.

I'll give it another try.

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tom