[Arm-netbook] Sorry to Luke (and others)

[chadvellacott at sasktel.net]

(From a computer-libErTarian)

    Sorry, Luke, for the "shower" of private "e"mails today.

    [To avoid any of you confusing me with someone else (I guess Al Billings)-
   No, it was not me who sent 10 private messages, containing demands, in 20 minutes.  Mine was like- 
7, containing questions, in over 3 hours.]

    To you on this mailing-list, and to Luke when he is not so (understandably) busy, please let me 
"explain" my apology and how this happened.

    I had many questions, regarding the products offered at
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
for backing.

    And I am nearly sure that it HAD occurred to me, in the past, that if a question whose answer is 
likely of interest to others, can be asked and answered PUBLICLY, then that can save time for the 
person answering, by not having to answer the question twice.
    And I HAD noticed that "Rhombus-Tech" had a mailing-list.
    But I guess that it has been a long time since I was on ANY mailing-list, and that I did not 
think clearly about what that meant.
    (Mistake 1) I did not "put two and two together".  It did not occur to me that perhaps my 
questions should be sent to the list, rather than privately to Luke.  I did not even think to ask him 
whether I should send my questions, to the list.  So I sent him a "shower" of questions in private 
"e"mails, mostly this morning but a few were before then.
    After responding to several of them, in reply to one of them he (in a gracious way) asked me to 
"send this" to the list (send the question or send that "e"mail of mine, or perhaps, by "this", he 
meant something more).
    (Mistake 2) I supposed or guessed that he just meant the one or more questions in that particular 
message, or just questions of that particular kind.
    And since I had questions which were on DIFFERENT sub-topics, I continued and sent one or more 
other private "e"mails to him.
    Then he (well-manneredly, again) replied to another of mine, and his reply made it clear enough 
for me, that I should send most or all of these questions, to the list.
    (Mistake 3) BUT, I had already sent another "e"mail, BEFORE reading his 2nd request asking me to 
post to the mailing-list.
    So, understandably, he again replied by directing me to the list.  Again, not rudely, though I 
had been acting foolishly.  And, understandably, he mentioned "critical tasks" for him to do.

    After that, I felt quite ashamed.  Perhaps a little like a baby.  ~(:^o)---
    At least I am learning by this event.  [(A) to use mailing-lists when proper.  and (B) generally, 
to read received messages from the same person or on the same topic, before clicking <Send>.]
    I guess that I was not thinking at my best, this morning.  I should have stepped back and taken a 
break.

    Sorry, Luke.  And thanks for the patience with me.

    And sorry too, to you who benefit from work which Luke does when unnecessarily-private messages 
do not distract him from "critical" tasks!

    (And I suspect that I wasted some of Chris Waid's time, too, by "CCing" him with every one of 
those messages of mine, other than one message where I guess I unintentionally put Chris into a 
"To"-field!)

    I will now send questions, to this list.

    And if Luke at some time says that he is fine with it, I will copy (to this list), in some form, 
at least some of my earlier questions and his answers.

    Sincerely, a computer-libErTarian.  (:^)