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On 5 Jul 00, at 0:30, Dan Treacy wrote:
| :-) I figured I might as well make an auspicious or at least infamous
| reentry to the list.
|
| > At 12:05 AM 7/5/00, Dan Treacy wrote:
| > >Hmmm.....
<<SNIPPED>>
| > AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH... Someone has
| > created a monster !!!
|
|
| And you'll have to work on your technique a bit there Jon, That could have
| been split over at least five or six lines. Would have done your ranking the
| world of good .
So, in theory, by being verbose and wordy and adding in a lot of superflous,
redundant and unneeded yet perfectly relevant content to your email, you can
gain a higher ranking in the SLUG Pearls? I like that idea, because it means
that posters who fully explain their replies will get a favourable ranking, a
ranking that's due to them with their greater abilities at explaining a
solution for another poster who has asked a question regarding Linux, or SCSI,
or servers or just about anything at all.
Unfortunately, as a by-product of that ranking engine, some posters will tend
to inflate their articles with redundant and superflous material, just to
increase their ranking. For instance, a poster may extoll the virtues of Open
Source and the cheap and often free method by which Linux is distributed and
manage to link that somehow to the current GST (Goods and Services Tax) that
has been imposed in Australia. Once that link has been made, a poster could
then continue on their tangent for as long as they wished to do so, all the
time increasing their rank in the Pearls.
As anyone on this list knows, the GST is a very complex subject, one that
could easily waste a large amount of bandwidth and server space if the wider
Linux community that subscribes to this list was to get hold of the subject and
be given a legitimate method of tying it to Linux. One has, after all, meerely
to show that, by being free in most cases, Linux is a definite winner when it
comes to Operating Systems in the post-GST Australia.
If a software package is given away for free, what is the vale of that
package? Can GST be charged on something that has been given away freely? While
I doubt this, I'm sure the Australian Taxation Office will think of some way to
collect their taxes for the distribution of Linux, especially as the coverage
of Linux increases in Australia and across the world.
As you can clearly see, merely by finding a minute way of linking a complex
subject to Linux, a lot of bandwidth can be used and the ranking of that person
can increase greatly in the SLUG Pearls, all the while not providing
information of great benefit to the Linux community in Sydney and Australia.
Aussie
p.s. By using PGP or similar to digitally sign your message, will that be
included in the ranking? After all, it is important to ensure that any
particular message has not been altered by a third party, and PGP signatures
can ensure that validity of messages for a long time to come.
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