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. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > LinuxUsers mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to >> be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." >> -Roger Penrose >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
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