Ahh, the subtleties of dry humor, and all those who miss it.

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 11:19, James Lance wrote:
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> > 1. Never, EVER, ask a question w/o doing extensive study on the issue
> > first. 
> 
> Um, I think you are kidding here, but I can't be sure.  If people are flamed 
> for asking a question it is very rare.
> 
> > 2. Anyone can at any time make an arbitrary rule declaration. Simply by
> > declaring that a particular habit, custom or trait is rude, that thing
> > is instantly established as such and any person who does it is a jerk.
> 
> There are a few very vocal people on the list, but 90% is just opinion.  Maybe 
> you should lighten up a bit.
> 
> > 3. You are expected to psychicly know who is participating on this and
> > all other mailing lists. You are allowed to listen to multiple lists,
> > but you may not post the same topic or question to multiple lists if you
> > think it might annoy anybody else monitoring the same list. Although we
> > are superior, we have no ability to ignore posts -- Nazi overlords
> > physically force us to read everything that enters our mailbox, so when
> > you cross-post, you steal from us precious time.
> 
> Again with the lighten up...
> 
> > 4. Your messages must be formatted to 1980 technology standards. You may
> > not include any html or rtf attachments or any other kind of document,
> > even if the document's file format is readable on the vast majority of
> > operating systems out there. 
> 
> Define vast majority of operating systems... you are subscribed to a LINUX 
> newsletter.  The default (and for good reason) for most linux email readers 
> is plain text. If you want to get help from the people using standards based 
> email readers you should use plain text.  Lighten up...
> 
> James
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