Package Manager Frontend Synaptic (fwd)

[Vikram Goyal]

-----Original Message-----
From: Bret Hughes <bhughes at elevating.com>
Sent: Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:47:50PM -0600
To fedora-list
Subject: Re: Package Manager Frontend Synaptic (fwd)


> On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 00:03, Grizzly(Francis Smit) wrote:
> > Steven W. Orr wrote:
> > 
> > >I think that *29* lines of a .siganture file is about as rude as I've ever 
> > >seen it. Please read http://www.foggy.co.uk/acornfaq/netiq.html
> > >especially the section on Signatures.
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > hmmm clearly you are a person who is seriously challenged in the area of 
> > good manners,
> > contacting people of list and berating them about their sig/netiquette, 
> > is in and of it's self
> > rude, but since this is a list and policy about posts/sigs etc should be 
> > either the decision of
> > the entire list, or the list owner/admins, that makes it doubly rude.  
> > I cannot help feeling that deep down you knew you where being rude, why 
> > else do this
> > off list, how ever I am bringing this back on list where everyone may 
> > have their say about
> > this if they even care. In the spirit of debate I have temporarily 
> > shortened my sig for this
> > post, however I'd like to see a valid argument as to why there is a 
> > problem with sig length,
> > something you have completely neglected, a link to a (hmm ISP I 
> > think)'s  netiquette page
> > is not a valid anything, as that is just their opinion, and unless they 
> > are a member of this
> > forum their opinion is irrelevant.
> > 
> 
> FWIW I have a few pet peeves regarding list usage:
> 
> Long signatures, or signatures in general for that matter that require
> me to delete them when I reply.
> 
Fortunately I don't have to do it manually. Vim does it for me when
replying:)

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