Its Rated G I promise.

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Peter Manis <[email protected]> wrote:
> God I hate shortened URLs in emails.  Is there a point to it?  Is someone
> limited to 80 characters in email or something?  The simple fact that I
> can't see the domain name of the link and the added hassle of having to
> check it before I open it really annoys me.  It is a little off topic, but
> it goes back to an issue I had last year when a link to a torrent was sent
> to the list and I opened it while I was at work because the discussion did
> not relate to anything illegal.  I can put some blame on me for opening it,
> but A) I really shouldn't have to worry about the content being posted to
> this list, and B) I shouldn't have to worry about the content when it is
> sent from someone I know.  David has addressed the content issue, and if
> nothing else I would back it all simply because of that, but personally I
> agree there needs to be structure and defined code of conduct/acceptable
> use.
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> It DOES NOT infringe on M$ look and feel.  They just say it does.
>> This has not been decided legally or by the IT community as a whole.
>> It looks different, enough, to me ::grin::.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr.
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Chris Penn <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Here just a copy of Windows, office not include:
>> >> http://bit.ly/5YPEHg
>> >>
>> >> No Serial code needed!
>> >
>> > LOL
>> >
>> > Actually, this brings up some interesting grey areas...
>> >
>> > Is this "bad" because it infringes on MS's "look and feel"?  Or is it
>> > bad
>> > because (in my opinion) consumers didn't get what they thought that they
>> > paid for.
>> >
>> > I'd love to get a copy and actually look at it and see how well they
>> > copied
>> > everything and at what point you could tell that it was Ubuntu under the
>> > hood.
>> >
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