[GRLUG] Linux desktop marketshare

David Pembrook david at pembrook.net
Wed Dec 12 17:45:12 EST 2007


Greg,
I've been away from the list a while now for the simple reason of people 
like yourself griping about the way people post. The nice thing about 
good computer software is their flexibility. I've chosen this option 
instead of complaining about your handling of things that don't really 
matter in the grand scheme of things. I've made a filter to just delete 
anything coming from you.

I'd have rather this not been my first post back on the list.. but it 
has to be said

GET A LIFE!


oppps... I wasn't going to complain.

anyhow... for the rest of you... this is the easiest way of dealing with 
people like Greg. Nice little filters to remove hate mail from your inbox.

Thanks
Dave

Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 17:11 -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
>   
>> I suspect if you're not on ulcer
>> medication already you will be
>> one day.  
>>
>> Why look at that.  A top post and
>> narrow lines...
>>
>> Bet I could get the acid really 
>> dripping by making part of the
>> message red and part green.
>>
>> Xmas and all that.  And yes, Xmas
>> has pagan overtones for some.
>>
>> Really folks,  this 
>> isn't that 
>> serious.  Nor ever in
>> my life have I seen 
>> people so worried about 
>> the fluff aspects of e-mail.
>>
>> Someone on some ISO 
>> committees?
>>     
>
> You
> STILL
> do
> not
> get
> it.
>
> You
> are
> sending
> your
> text
> twice.
>
> Once
> in
> your
> broken
> HTML.
> Another
> in
> straight
> text.
>
> And
> people
> wonder
> why
> things
> are
> slow.
>
> They
> have
> no
> clue
> that
> they
> are
> the
> problem.
>
> Just
> like
> web-designers
> I
> know,
> claiming
> a
> website
> hosted
> by
> us
> is
> slow
> when
> in
> fact
> it
> is
> 1+MB
> in
> size
> with
> images
> and
> media
> and
> they
> are
> bitching
> because
> it
> takes
> 15+
> seconds
> to
> begin
> to
> render
> after
> loading
> the
> 200K
> external
> CSS
> files.
>
> Are
> you
> beginning
> to
> understand
> my
> complaint?
>
> I
> hope
> you
> do
> as
> you
> are
> really
> beginning
> to
> annoy
> me.
>
> Sending
> e-mail
> in
> an
> acceptable
> format
> so
> that
> the
> reader
> is
> not
> forced
> to
> read
> it
> a
> certain
> way,
> is
> the
> most
> acceptable
> way
> to
> communicate.
>
> If
> you
> cannot
> comprehend
> this
> you
> are
> indeed
> the
> clueless
> person
> I
> used
> to
> just
> suspect
> you
> are.
>
>
> Please Bob, this is not a Newspaper.
>
> I'm not worried about it, just that I hate having to go back thirty five
> messages just to understand your answer for the question asked in the
> second reply and you are just now answering 17 layers later and actually
> answer it at the top of a HUGE non-snipped non-conversational flowed
> e-mail.
>
> You claim to be interested in how people read, prove it. Get over your
> pretentious self, forcing ME to have to care enough to go back and
> answer your questions. If you want help, play nice and follow common
> courtesy.
>
> It is far easier to read e-mail conversations with in-line replies than
> this crap you think is acceptable.
>
> And For the record: I couldn't care less about the HTML problems, my
> reader deals with it just fine. Though your mails ARE TWICE as large as
> they should be. AND for reading comprehension, please just do in-line
> replies and "judicious" snippage of things not related. I am asking you
> because I am asking, nothing more. If you choose to ignore that request,
> I'll choose to not answer any of your questions, even if I were the only
> person that could help.
>
> And again, archives will thank you much later. Also people looking
> through our archives will be able to spot the IDIOT that can't chat in a
> normal fashion and have to force people to read horribly formatted
> messages.
>   
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