Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:29:26
Message-Id: 20081222043014.GA9679@princeton.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver) by Dale
1 On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 09:16:05PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked:
2 > This is my two cents. Since when someone comes here and posts a html
3 > message they get told not to use html anyway, why not let them know
4 > beforehand that html is not the "norm" on this list? I don't think it
5 > would hurt to put that on the website where the mailing lists subscribe
6 > info is and also in the email that confirms the subscription. I
7 > wouldn't mind seeing that part in bold or something in the email to make
8 > sure it is seen. I suspect this would solve a lot of problems in the
9 > long run.
10
11 Uh... so how will you put something in "bold" in an e-mail without
12 HTML? And if you do use HTML, is it not hypocritical to tell the
13 users, in bold nontheless, that they should not?
14
15 ;p
16
17 W
18 --
19 "`Er, hey Earthman...'
20 `Arthur,' said Arthur.
21 `Yeah, could you just sort of keep this robot with you and
22 guard this end of the passageway. OK?'
23 `Guard?' said Arthur. `What from? You just said there's no
24 one here.'
25 `Yeah, well, just for safety, OK?' said Zaphod.
26 `Whose? Yours or mine?'"
27
28 - Arthur drawing the short straw on Magrathea.
29 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 745 days, 3:11

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