On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 04:48:03PM -0000, Norman Dunbar wrote: > > [RZ]If the general consensus (as you claim) is that more than 80% of talk on > > [RZ]this list should be devoted to some M$ virus nonsense he won't be the > last > [RZ}one to quit. > Well, I never claimed 80%, or indeed any figures, so where you get 80% from > I have no idea.
it was approximately 80% of trafic the last few days and you were defending this practice, simple conclusion. > [RZ}Are we back to the kindergarten after almost 20 years existence > [RZ}of the QL? > Peter certainly is - I'm not, and I don't suspect anyone else here is > either. I suspect Peter is trying to do something useful with his time. It is kindergarten attitude however when we receive advices on something as trivial as reading mail. > [RZ}Btw, out of 821 messages I have (selectively) archived of this group > [RZ}a mere 172 were sent using Outlook. Eudora 262, Turnpike 68, Bat 37, > [RZ}sylpheed 24, Lotus 6, Calypso 59, Mozilla 51, kmail 27, talk 1, > [RZ}pine 69, mutt 91. Totally incomplete and unrepresentative survey. > So, not many non-PCs there then perhaps ? it doesn't matter how many PC's or whatever, the point was that Outlook specific issues are interesting only for a fraction of the readers. Btw many of the listed mailers run on different platforms so the above survey doesn't tell much about the computers people use. > What is wrong with a polite email asking people to take it privately if they > want to finish the discussion, or please try to keep the discussions on QL > related subjects etc. But to come on in and effectively resign just because > a few emails not to his liking were received is a bit over the top. Just a few emails? How many discussions did we have in the last 6 months about: - Outlook and viruses - How to prevent Outlook from sending HTML mail People voiced their concern about this repeatedly but it didn't help much obviously. We should tolerate a modest level of offtopic messages but the last 4 virus discussions were a bit too much. Bye Richard
