Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the "..." bit hides crucial context = "(symbolising the idea that power will eventually destroy itself)." Without that context the meaning seems to be reversed. Crass were not combining those "icons of authority" to show respect to all or any of them!! Quite the reverse! They were

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread anne-ology
globe. Well, that's what various Hoosiers told me a few decades ago ;-) Although opening up your 2nd link, if that's to what you're referring, I have no clue what that's supposed to be. From: Séamas Ó Brógáin Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 6:05 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffic

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:58 04/08/2015 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: Wikipedia is not an authority... And there was no need for me to point this out, since you already knew! ... it's a collection of opinion pieces. Just like your opinion, then? In fact, Wikipedia, as usual, gives its sources for these claims -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 12:31:47 +0100 Brian Barker wrote: Hello Brian, >Wikipedia disagrees: " Wikipedia is not an authority - it's a collection of opinion pieces. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" You're a sidewal

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:02 04/08/2015 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: The symbol is the logo of a band called Crass - An English anarcho-punk group of the late 70s and into the 80s. Nothing at all to do with Fascism. Wikipedia disagrees: "[T]he Crass logo was an amalgam of several 'icons of authority' including the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 12:11:04 +0200 Klaus Muth wrote: Hello Klaus, Séamas et al, >I only was able to find 2 messages from Brad, both lacking any >Nazi-symbol-like shape. I was going to reply off-list, but things seem to have taken a bad turn. Séamas is referring to the X-Face: header. Not all

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread Séamas Ó Brógáin
> I only was able to find 2 messages from Brad, both lacking any > Nazi-symbol-like shape. I think you are mistaken. His messages contain a graphic embedded in the header, using a new technique called X-face, which places a graphical image in all e-mail messages. Perhaps your e-mail program is not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread Klaus Muth
I only was able to find 2 messages from Brad, both lacking any Nazi-symbol-like shape. I even tried to look at those messages in different fonts, both monospaced and proportional to no avail. There is only one symbolic thing in his mails: > _ > / ) > / _)rad which looks very much like a "B" and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread Séamas Ó Brógáin
> Are you talking about the ASCII art capital B? No, the thing that looks like a Nazi symbol. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfound

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-03 Thread toki
On 08/03/2015 11:47 AM, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: > Could Brad Rogers explain what the symbol embedded in his e-mail Are you talking about the ASCII art capital B? jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailin

[libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-03 Thread Séamas Ó Brógáin
Could Brad Rogers explain what the symbol embedded in his e-mail message is? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquet