Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 09:32:39 +0200 From: Ian FREISLICH <if@hetzner.co.za> To: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!! Message-ID: <E1DXwZD-000Bob-Lc@hetzner.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 May 2005 20:39:32 GMT." <20050516203932.0A38316A4D0@hub.freebsd.org>
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> You see what is says? It says "Bill Paul." It does *********NOT********* > say "Paul Bill," does it now. WELL DOES IT!!?!?! Bill, there are different conventions in other parts of the world. I remember travelling to Senegal several years ago and meeting a guy whose business card was stamped "Boubakar Barry". At the time I thought "what a strange first name". It has since occurred to me that not everybody does things according to conventions that I am used to. You would do well to understand this especially if you interract with people outside of your US cocoon. I try to make things unambiguous for others by capitalising my surname. Of course it helps to have a surname that's not easily mistakeable for a first name. Ian -- Ian Freislich
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