On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 08:39:07PM -0500, Jerome H. Fine wrote: > >Mouse wrote: > [...] > >Usually, as in this case, this turns out to be because (for > >unrelated reasons) I go to some lengths to avoid seeing anything > >that was sent through gmail, even laundered through mailing lists. > >(This loses me some mail I regret losing, but, so far, not enough > >to make me take out those blocks. And note that it's not people > >using gmail addresses I block, but mail actually sent through > >gmail.)
Like, as if the email had been written in a browser? Or in a phone app? Intriguing idea. I have collected quite some mails from all those lists I subscribe to. I wish I could find time to explore this further. Perhaps even come to conclusion. I think I will write a note to myself about it and if I ever find the note... [...] > And since I receive so much help for the very few things that I really > need like help for a new system, it is really very reasonable to spend > the few minutes each day to sift out the chaff (at least what I regard > as chaff - not at all identical for anyone else of course) from the good > stuff. > > I rarely reply to this sort of speculation, but I regard Mouse's opinions > quite highly, in addition to Tony Duell whom I regard the most. I subscribed to this list exactly because of huge body of collective knowledge. Right now, the only ancient machines I have is 20 years old Pentium clone (my first Linux installed, probably dead, but it might be interesting to give it a try) and maybe some 12-15 years old Compaq iPAQ PDA (back in time I replaced WindowsCE with Linux, very pleasurable experience to have it in a pocket, despite some weight, possibly still boots, will have to check). So I am not too much of a collector :-). However, I keep collecting scraps of knowledge, a piece a time, in my own slooooooow manner. Thus it makes me a bit uneasy when I see people going away. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **
