Incoming from Jarrod Major: > Hey Gang, > > I apologize in advance, this may be a long one...
I apologize in advance too, though it shouldn't be long, however my views have been seen by some to be rather extreme. Nice post, and I agree with most of what you say, however, ... > 1) Please refrain from the use of profanity on this list, if you feel strongly Keep this one in mind. :-) > 2) Racism, sexism and personal attacks will not be tolerated and anyone Thank you. > 3) Microsoft bashing is bad. Using any of your favourite pet names for them is In your opinion. In mine, they deserve everything we can throw at them, and there's lots we can deservedly throw at them. Even CERT is recommending against the use of IE. Come on, Jarrod, this is Calgary Linux User Group. Microsoft sucks, in so many ways! > 9) HTML email; this is regarded as a no-no among most of the members of this > list. Several members use text-based email clients and as such when you send Eh? I use a text based client (mutt), and I have no difficulty whatever with html. I think html mails are dumb (aka. stupid/pointless), but they don't inconvenience me in the least. > 10) Email attachments are also frowned upon. Unless it is a text file please Perhaps because I use mutt, I don't get this either. No skin off my nose if it offends you, but it's not a problem here. > 11) Top vs Bottom posting and trimming the fat. ................................^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!! > The jury is out on Top or > Bottom posting. This seems to be a different strokes thing. Top posting is I've learned to accept that this disgusting practice is going to be used here. Fine. But please do trim! > I'm sure there are more, I just can't think of any right now. Hell this is a ................................................................^^^^ > Thanks for reading! Much appreciated. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
