Thread Hijacking - Digest 1451

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Mar 30 13:40:18 UTC 2004



Parameshwara Bhat wrote:

> Hello Alexander,
>
>> you should better choose a topic which is "speaking". You posted once
>> and now with subject line "fedora-list Digest, Vol 1, Issue 1394". This
>> is wrong, it does says nothing about your intention, question. It even
>> false references to a daily digest mail. This is called thread
>> hijacking.
>
>
>> Please start new mails to the list with an empty mail window where you
>> fill in recipient (here fedora-list at redhat.com, maybe use your address
>> book), a speaking topic (maybe: howto use kppp as normal user?) and
>> write down your body text. Do not take a different mail to which you do
>> not want to reply and erase just the body.
>
>
>> Keeping this in mind will raise the chance to get good help from the
>> list.
>
>
>> Alexander
>
>
> Suggestion well-taken.Using old Digest is a habit from Opera mailing 
> List where submision is not accepted otherwise.
>
> Thank you.By the by,do you have any idea on the subject : "Howto use 
> kppp as normal user?"
>
> Parameshwara Bhat

Someone else just asked that, and I think the easiest way is to set the 
regular user up in the sudoers file and then allow them to use sudo to 
start/stop kppp.

man sudo, man sudoers, and visudo to get detailed information  and to 
set it up.

>
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