RE: [squid-users] Mailing Etiquette (was: newbie config help)

Apologies to all for asking him to do that. I always strip out my config
files for my own use, and had simply forgotten that not everybody does that.

For future reference, it is best, IMO, to do a "grep -vE "^$|^#" configfile
>newconfig", as that won't stip lines with trailing comments, and will
remove blank lines.

Aaron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Raven [mailto:dave@reason.za.org]
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 11:31 AM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] Mailing Etiquette (was: newbie config help)
>
>
> Hello all,
> I am not placing blame or pointing fingers;
> but just some general advice (from my point of view) as to sending
> config files on the squid list (any list).
>
> If you are going to send your config file, please
> grep -v "#" yourconfigfile.conf
> first. This will remove all the comments etc from your
> file and leave us
> with the information.
>
> This alone should cut down on the size of squid-users
> mails; also - and
> I think this has been addressed before -
> its not always necessary to mail an attachment to all
> the users. Try to
> cut it down to a few users, but if its
> small I see no problem. You see, while the attachement may only be
> 100+K; it gets sent to many people.
> Well, that and I would FAR prefer to scan through a
> config file with no
> comments.
>
> As I don't actually have any say on this list you needed
> pay much notice
> to my messages, as this should probably
> fall into the Spam category I am talking about, but feel
> free to flame
> me (/dev/null) ; cuz its just an idea, come advice.
>
>
> Thanks
> Dave.
> OpteqSec.
>
Received on Thu Dec 13 2001 - 12:51:53 MST