From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 23 5: 8:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE22B37B401 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 05:08:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-5-cust47.cdf.cable.ntl.com [81.101.150.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B26C43E4A for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 05:08:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18Fa1P-0002Dq-00; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:08:31 +0000 Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:08:31 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) Message-ID: <20021123130831.GB5036@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Anthony Atkielski , FreeBSD Advocacy References: <20021121161453.GA69019_submonkey.net@ns.sol.net> <008501c2917a$ac643080$0a00000a_atkielski.com@ns.sol.net> <200211221502.gAMF2a6a089963@catflap.bishopston.net> <20021122234047.GB60785@wantadilla.lemis.com> <014201c29296$f9cc4a20$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20021123071534.GC39240@wantadilla.lemis.com> <01e101c292c8$1aa8cda0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20021123082710.GD39240@wantadilla.lemis.com> <020501c292cc$03275c10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <020501c292cc$03275c10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. X-message-flag-attribution: suresh, sdm. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 09:40:43AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > That's amply demonstrated in email which is so > > badly laid out that you'd think people would be > > ashamed of it. > > Most people don't care. They are interested only in the content of e-mail, > not in its formatting or in the conformance of its headers to any arbitrary > standard. Only geeks care about the latter things, and geeks are an > increasingly small minority of computer users. Everybody here cares (except you). By not formatting your email with respect to it's targeted audience, you are displaying rudeness, in much the same way as posting private email to the list is (especially when you refuse to apologize, even after being told that it's not the done thing). Ceri -- Reckoning awaits! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message