Fedora vs openSUSE

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Tue Dec 20 21:29:03 UTC 2011


On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:08:53 -0700
stan <gryt2 at q.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:07:34 -0800
> Paul Allen Newell <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > As far as I am concerned, you are not wrong.
> > Darryl's post is not appropriate for this list
> 
> I think the first inappropriate post belongs to Mr. Zeitler.  Putting
> his quote at the start of every message is equivalent to:

Well your email starts "Tue, 20", which is Tueday aka Tiwesdæg which is
celebrating a proto-Germanic god and from there-in it gets silly.

> People are welcome to their beliefs, but a technical mailing list
> doesn't seem to be the place to proselytize or air those beliefs.

I trust there will be no comments about Merry Christmas (now or in
January according to sect), people will remember that the new year is an
arbitary construct that differs between cultures on the list.

> Of course, such messages could be interpreted as eyeballs paying for
> offered help; a personalized Google business model - I give you help
> for free, you give me your attention on my message.

Or you could just treat it as that persons little .sig quirk of their
own, just like all the others people have

Alan
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