New posting rules for Fedora List, From Linus.

[Trevor "TeC" Christian]

This may be an April fools joke...

But I think it highlights the semi-ridiculousness of the extensive 
formatting debate that is/was going on...

Linus Torvaldz wrote:

>I've heard about the recent problems on this list and I've decided to
>use my status as the founder of Linux to step in and settle matter of
>how to post to the list and put the matter to rest.
>
>Rule #1   Posting content format
>All posts to the list from this point forward must be set to have a
>fixed display width of 4,317 inches (or the metric equivalent, 6
>millimeters).
>
>The background color must be set to black and the font color must be
>set to 0XFFFFFF.
>
>After composing your message to the above standards, preferable using
>either version three of Microsoft Word, (WINE, VMware may help here)
>or any version of Star-Writer, take a screen shot of your message and
>convert the resulting graphic to gif format and then to "bmp" format.
>
>Rule #2   Character set selection for all postings:
>All email shall be posted in  utf-8 for Sanskrit (utfskt)
>see: 
>http://www.indologie.uni-halle.de/software/utf.htm
>"Typesetting Sanskrit Texts with OmegaTeX"
>
>Rule #3    Quoting rules
>
>All quoted text must be formatted in the Classic Sideways Diagonal All
>Caps format. Aka "CSDACF".
>
>If you cannot persuade your system to produce CSDACF then you must use
>the "Colonial Reversed Aromatics Pulsed Standard" -  aka "CRAPS".
>
>The CRAPS standard requires that all inform nation be completely
>reversed both in format and synchronicity.
>
>For example the above sentence would be presented as :
>
>.yticinorhcnys dna tamrof ni htob desrever yletelpmoc eb noitan mrofni
>lla taht seriuqer dradnats SPARC ehT
>
>
>To conform to the synchonicity requirement use the table below to
>determine how to respond to all postings to the list from here after:
>
>    Topics posted on:   |     may be responded to on:
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>            3/31/05                    4/1/05
>            3/30/05                    4/2/05
>            3/29/05                    4/3/05
>                .                                .
>                .                                .
>              etc                            etc
>
>
>Please enjoy the convenience and ease of these new posting rules.  
>
>Please send your complaints and suggestions to root at Bell.labs.com 
>
>
>Sincerely, 
>Linuz
>
>  
>

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