On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 17:15 +0100, Tony Travis wrote: > TheVeech wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:58 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > >> That kind of implies that there are no "learned rules" or "etiquette" > >> on the > >> [...] > > > > This is one of those areas where people mean well but tend to get > > carried away with their emotions and prejudices. > > [...] > > I've been around mailing list for a long time, and nothing disappoints > me more than the enthusiasm with which people take up OTT arguments on > lists like this: It's usually about renaming the list, or what the list > 'policy' is about OTT threads, or if the list should be moderated and > all sorts of other unimportant side issues that have little to do with > the reason the list was created for in the first place, which is to be > read by people with a common interest in the topic the list is about. > > FWIW, I think TheVeech is right: You don't have to read any of this and > if you don't want to then don't. My criticism is that most of us don't > want quite such a detailed explanation of what is self evident. We just > want to talk to each other about Ubuntu, so let's do a bit more of that.
Point taken. Can you post the torrent link for alternate i386 on the 19th :) > Best wishes, > > Tony. > -- > Dr. A.J.Travis, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Rowett Research Institute, | http://www.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt > Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, | phone:+44 (0)1224 712751 > Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK. | fax:+44 (0)1224 716687 > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
