I find it a bit frustrating when users in the forum don’t put their country location in their details.
Yes, I know. Privacy!
But if you can?!
Why not add at least your country. In quite few instances , it can be helpful when we are answering questions. Don’t you think?
It doesn’t matter to me as long as we can communicate in a civil way
On 07/15/2008 caf4926 wrote:
> Why not add at least your country. In quite few instances , it can be
> helpful when we are answering questions. Don’t you think?
Actually no. I’m from Germany, so in which situation would this be more helpful (or less) than if I were from, say, Egypt?
Uwe
Well if you’re suggesting mirrors etc. it might be helpful.
Mirrors, Yes, I had that in mind.
Also, internet questions relating to speed, isp etc…
Some people can’t even seems to manage .iso burns. Crumbs if I knew they lived in the same country as me, I’d offer to send them one.
Ok, some people are so vague in the first place it takes a few extra questions in reply to get the info you need.
It was just a thought I threw in to soapbox.
> Why not add at least your country.
it seems there are some here who use your location to try and hit you
over the head…
i can’t imagine why…i guess part of that mankind old “us” vs “them”
attitude…
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
> Actually no. I’m from Germany, so in which situation would this be more
> helpful (or less) than if I were from, say, Egypt?
lol, in no way is that info helpful, or not…
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
On 07/15/2008 DenverD wrote:
> it seems there are some here who use your location to try and hit you
> over the head…
I don’t think this is the background of the original suggestion, no.
Uwe
On 07/15/2008 Chrysantine wrote:
> Well if you’re suggesting mirrors etc. it might be helpful.
Granted, I found the German mirrors more reliable and even faster when I was in Las Vegas and wanted to update my installation 
Uwe
Well compared to what mirrors?
Could be that there was a lot of traffic on the other mirror, anyways this is OT.
It might be helpful to know what country and primary language if you want to link a wiki page in the recievers language.
For some the mirrors are an issue for SPEED, though I must say I never notice any real difference. But it seems logical to point a person from Austrailia (if we know they live there) to a mirror more local than say Germany.
Here in the UK, there have been big issues with ISP’s throttling customers. Just about all ADSL is sold as “Unlimited”. But it’s NOT (see small print). Customers are being automatically switched on to high user pipes which are throttled right down and full of heavy users.
If a forum user is experiencing problems with their adsl, off topic/non-suse related topic, and we know they are from “?”
We may be able to offer advice if we have sufficent knowledge in that area and / country.
It’s nice to be friendly here too, and in this ever shrinking world we have many of us travelled far away. I would like to have users say to me : “Hey, I visited the Lake District”…!!!
I would love to visit Sweden, Germany, Denmark and Finland - I haven’t been to any of these yet!
But , I can visualize you better, now I know where you are.
And if I’m in a thread with you, I have a good idea if you are in bed asleep or up and about ready to answer/respond!
Not being a doom sayer but sometimes exposing your origin one can be subjected to discrimination:confused:
Just my unworthy 2cents
Unfortunately, this is probablty true.
Like admitting to using windows you mean:eek:
We try to be partial, oh no I mean impartial !
Do i smell racism here?
Dude. Where exactly is that racist?
For goodness sake!
“Special” treatment according to country?
:eek:
Why would we do that? It doesn’t make sense.
{joke}
This is a nefarious plot by caf4926 to prove to the world once and for all that we Americans type worse English than folks whose native language is not English.
{/joke}
The few times I’ve seen an issue where locale may play a role, the poster states their locale and usually explains why it might be an issue.
I don’t know that knowing a member’s locale would be beneficial or not for the vast majority of issues discussed here.
more important nfo,
planet of origin.:):)
Updated Mine,
Heeter