Re: gfloppy: Could not determine current format type

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

> > > "Don't do that"
> > > Having content that's only in the subject makes things difficult with a
> > > number of mailers.
>
> I use mutt and read all mail in batchs, scanning the content (and
> reading those that seem interesting), not the headers (cos sometimes
> the headers are wrong, specially when topic changes, but subject does
> not).

I open the message only if the subject tells me that it might be interesting. I
haven't got the time to read them all... Also, the Subject: header is displayed
along with the message body in all mail clients I've ever used, so it's actually i
bit surprising to me that some people are using mailers where it's not.

> > Personally, I think things are a lot more difficult when people are using
> > subjects like "Desktop problem", "Can someone help me?", "Newbie questions" and
> > so on and so forth, so I have to open _every_ message to find out what their
> > really about.
>
> Adding the problem in the body helps a lot too. I read your mail and
> saw a question and a program message, but nothing saying that the msg
> was the version and the problem was in the subject.
>
> You mailed this:
>
> ###
> Why do I get this error message? Surely, this information is not needed
> to format a floppy from scratch (I'm _not_ using "Quick format").
> --
> [indonesia:~] (0)% rpm -qf /usr/bin/gfloppy
> gnome-utils-1.2.0-0_helix_1
> --
> ###
>
> For me "this" means the "text near", not the subject. You could add
> "the error showed in the subject" or just a copy of the subject.

Anyhow, I was writing this (i.e. the initial message of this thread) as I was just
about to leave my office to be in time for something else, so I was in a hurry. I
normally try to be a lot more precise.

I would appreciate it if we could stop this discussion now, and if someone could
tell me why 'gfloppy' (the version from gnome-utils-1.2.0_helix_1) complains about
failure to determine current format when I'm trying to _completely_ reformat a
floppy (I don't know what format it has, or if it is formatted at all, and I don't
really care.)

- Toralf