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> May I advance an opinion without generating too much controversy?
>
> I thought this site was going to be just that - a place where new users
> to Linux could get very practical down-to-earth advice without much
> technical jargon. I don't think that is the case. Too often, I find
> endless banter of those of you who are extremely experienced with Linux,
> use of the command line, etc. And the information is so involved and so
> technical, that I just scroll on past and don't have the time or
> background to absorb it.
>
Try forcing yourself to tackle one of those technical posts, and to
understand just a little of it. use the 'man' command to bring up the
man page for the application that is bing discussed, and then google
the app, for a more 'plain English' explanation. Try running the app,
and see what it does.
Become curious, and then indulge your curiosity.
> Then I post a simple (maybe not so simple question) about why those
> extraneous lines appear in the posted e-mails, and those annoying >>>
> characters, and none of you pros even address it.
>
When you posted that question, there were two large threads running,
discussing email and mal-formatted email, etc. If you have followed
those threads, you should have received more answers than you asked
for, with the single exception of, what are the '>>>' characters.
When someone replies to an email, and they are not using HTML email
(most old-timers prefer text-based email), the >, >>, >>> indicate the
text that was in the initial email, that you are replying to, with a
single '>' appended, each and every time another reply is added, so
you can determine which text is most recent, from the previous reply,
or the one before that, etc., with the longest string of '>>>>'s being
the earliest text.
> If there are simple sites out there to address common and simple
> problems without going into endless detail, which may or may not address
> the problem at hand, I would be glad to know about it.
>
You might want to consider buying a 'Linux Basics' book... or to just
start googling, paying careful attention to the keywords you use in
your searches.
Also, http://tldp.
information and tutorials.
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