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On Monday 22 December 2008 01:35:41 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:46:31 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: |
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> > That was one of the coldest, most invisible, and hardest to |
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> > troubleshoot communication errors I've ever seen. I don't even know |
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> > where to begin. It's like being in a foreign country and being told, |
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> > years later, that wearing shoes there meant "I'm not serious, so |
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> > please ignore my opinions.". The funny thing is, I have been |
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> > subscribed to this mailing list for maybe 2 years now, mostly just for |
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> > asking questions, but I didn't suspect that I was being ignored since |
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> > I usually got one or two answers. |
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> I wonder how it is possible to read this list for two years and never |
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> see a "no HTML please" post. |
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> Filing bugs is not the answer either, freedom is important, which means |
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> you are free to post in HTML and others are equally free to ignore you.# |
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Rightee-o boys and girls, this is the point where the pretty girl from candid |
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camera reveals that you are all suckers and points to the hidden camera |
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behind the mirror: |
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Am I the only one here that sees this is a stupid and completely irrelevant |
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thread? HTML mail is like farting when you meet the Queen - you just don't do |
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it. There isn't a rule about it, it's not an exam question and there never |
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was a formal process that came up with it. But if you do start raising one |
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cheek to split the crack and let rip, the butler might come along nicely and |
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ask you not to. At which point you should say "um, gee, thanks, I didn't know |
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that..." |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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