On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 02:05, Alan Connor wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 23:47:50 2003 > > > > > > Alan Connor wrote: > > >>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 20:12:58 2003 > > > > > > > The stupid idiot must have have jumped to the insane conclusion that you > > were reading this with mutt from the irrelevant facts that you were > > complaining that you couldn't read it and that you said you were using mutt. > > > > Imagine! believing what you told him instead of looking for the "enough > > clues in my posts" to deduce you were talking crap! > > > > I think I'll killfile him too, in case he starts believing what I say. > > > > > > > > I didn't say anything about killfiling Colin. Are you troll? > > > > I DO use mutt to post with, and slrn to read the posts off usenet. > > Obviously, neither can do anything with what ended up on usenet.... > > > I believe that I am being blamed for someone else's ignorance or selfishness. > > THEY were unaware or disdainful of the fact that a LOT of people read ldu from > the usenet. There was a thread on the subject earlier, the latter part of which > made it onto the mailing list. I participated in that thread. In fact, it was > initiated by a fellow kind enough to point out that my posts to the newsfeed > were not making it onto the mailing list, which I did not realize. > > > PGP, attachments, and HTML have no place on the usenet, and people whose posts > ultimately end up there, or those responsible for the delivery, need to observe > proper netiquette. At least that's my take on the subject, and that of many > others.
PGP *must* be acceptable on the mailing lists; the raison d'etre of PGP signing is so that, for example, we'll know that Bob Proulx actually sent his emails. http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct >From the code of conduct: "Avoid sending large attachments." Hey, that must mean you can send *small* and *medium* sized attachments!! -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian | | because I hate vegetables!" | | unknown | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]