Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-23 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: But you're using Google Groups, and Paul is axing about Google Mail. Not that they're much better. GG is such a massive usenet spew source that many sites won't carry them at all. The post you replied to never

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-05-09 09:50:30, schrieb Andrew Sackville-West: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:17:43PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 14:52:28 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: :0 * ^.*debianhelp.org /dev/null is approved!!! It may be better to use *

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-17 Thread pedxing
On May 16, 10:30 am, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/16/07 03:15, Atis wrote: [snip] Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the -- . (Web gmail is *not* a proper MUA.) If you miss it, why don't you request for it. I don't use gmail, so don't have any standing with Them.

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-17 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the -- . (Web gmail is *not* a proper MUA.) Do they support threads yet? Reply-to-list? -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-17 Thread Paul Johnson
Chris Bannister wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:46:21AM -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote: Their MS outlook defaults to top posting...therefore it must be ok. Microsoft said so =_) It could be argued that it defaults to putting

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-17 Thread pedxing
On May 17, 2:10 pm, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Johnson wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the -- . (Web gmail is *not* a proper MUA.) Do they support threads yet? Reply-to-list? Threads, yes (but

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/07 18:58, pedxing wrote: On May 17, 2:10 pm, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Johnson wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the -- . (Web gmail is *not* a

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 05:36:57PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: It could be argued that it defaults to putting the cursor at the top so to enable easy snipping of unnecessary text. If it defaulted to bottom posting then even less snipping would occur. :-( No, in the default setup it is very

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 00:36, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:46:21AM -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote: On 5/10/07, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Thomas wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user:

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-16 Thread Atis
[snip] Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the -- . (Web gmail is *not* a proper MUA.) If you miss it, why don't you request for it. So far, all my feature requests have been implemented. Regards, Atis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 03:15, Atis wrote: [snip] Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the -- . (Web gmail is *not* a proper MUA.) If you miss it, why don't you request for it. I don't use gmail, so don't have any standing with Them. So far, all my

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:10:10AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Also it is preferable to snip the sig and any disclaimers etc. Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the -- . Interesting, I don't find this option in mutt (though I bet vim could do this). But I couldn't use it anyway as I am

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 00:36, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:46:21AM -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote: On 5/10/07, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Thomas wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:46:21AM -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote: On 5/10/07, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Thomas wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html Almost as bad is when

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Rick Thomas wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html Almost as bad is when people top post their replies. Did these people utterly fail in grade school, or are they deliberately ignoring the flow

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-10 Thread Manaen Schlabach
On 5/10/07, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Thomas wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html Almost as bad is when people top post their replies. Did these people utterly fail in grade

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 09:46 -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote: On 5/10/07, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Almost as bad is when people top post their replies. Did these people utterly fail in grade school, or are they deliberately ignoring the flow of language? Their MS outlook

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 May 10 12:00 -0500]: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 09:46 -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote: On 5/10/07, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Almost as bad is when people top post their replies. Did these people utterly fail in grade school, or are they

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 14:52:28 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:55:19PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 15:28:14 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html You could have made this

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:17:43PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 14:52:28 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:55:19PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 15:28:14 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 16:55:14 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On May 7, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 15:28:14 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html You could have made this even funnier if you had

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Rick Thomas wrote: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html What you do to those people is add an X-Message header to your reply telling them they have a virus called Microsoft Outlook. Or do the two-spaces-then-START thing or whatever it is that makes Outlook think

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 15:28:14 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html You could have made this even funnier if you had posted it using a debianhelp.org account ;) -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 7, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 15:28:14 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html You could have made this even funnier if you had posted it using a debianhelp.org account ;) What makes you

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/07/07 14:55, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 15:28:14 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html You could have made this even funnier if you had posted it using a

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:55:19PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 15:28:14 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html You could have made this even funnier if you had posted it using a debianhelp.org account ;)