Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:08:31 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) Message-ID: <20021123130831.GB5036@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <020501c292cc$03275c10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20021121161453.GA69019_submonkey.net@ns.sol.net> <008501c2917a$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>
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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
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