¡Hello!
¿How fare you?
Lately, some unnamed members have been metooing like brain-dead AOLers.
Some others have complained about this. Although I have not complained, it
irks me. I have a simple solution:
If someone metoos like a brain-dead AOLers, direct the pffender to read
this primer about posting protocol:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080113211450/http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html
If the offenders continues to metoo like a brain-dead AOLer, an admin
should banner the offenders immediately. If an offender tries to rejoin under
a different name, I see no alternative other than summoning “Weird Al” Yankovic
for permanently dealing with the trouble maker:
“¡And postin’, ‘¡Me Too!’, like some brain-dead AOL-er!”
“¡I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller!”
“¡You’re just about as useless as JPEGs to Hellen Keller!”
——
“Weird Al” Yankovic
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos
The above video is not for the faint of heart, but it graphically
shows what “Weird Al” Yankovic does to people metooing like brain-dead AOLers.
;-)
Those metooing like brain-dead AOLers are full of excuses. The most
common excuse is laziness. Frankly, laziness is not an excuse. The other most
common excuse is the emailprogram. The internet is full of free
emailprograms. The requirements are so simple:
* The mailprogram should support editing in plain text.
* It should support Unicode.
It makes life easier for everyone if we all use plain text without
attachments. Indeed, on usenet exists the saying:
“¡If you care enough to send the very best, send plain text!”
The ability to handle Unicode is because we do much mathematics on this
list and cite people with names using characters not found in ASCII. This is
an example of mathematics using plain text in Unicode:
Φ=(1+√5)/2
1-ϕ=1/Φ
Φ²=1+Φ
Φ (Phi) is the symbol for the Golden Ratio. The Series Fibonacci
converges on Φ.
ISO 216 defines the ratio, sizes, and grammage of paper. The ration
ISO 216 uses is:
1:√2
The reason is that on can create 2 pieces of papers in the series with
the same aspectratio by just halving a piece of paper in the next larger size.
With margins, the text area on a A4-paper is 80:128 (80 columns by 128
lines) characters of plain text. The text area on A4-paper is very nearly Φ.
By the way, one should set the width of the text field in the
emailprogram to 80 characters.
That is enough examples of mathematics using Unicode in plain text.
Characteristics of a good emailclient are:
* Plain Text.
* Unicode.
Settings:
* Plain Text
* Width of 80 characters.
* UTF-8.
Send:
* Plain Text.
* 80 Characters wide.
* UTF-8.
* No Attachments.
¡This is not rocketscience!
¡Peace!
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