Threadiquette

Jeff Wilson · 08 Jan 2011, 00:57 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:57:43 -0600
Subject: (urth) Threadiquette
In-Reply-To: <1468B021-BCBB-4D00-9DEE-BC7471F516BF at butcherbaker.org>
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	<1468B021-BCBB-4D00-9DEE-BC7471F516BF at butcherbaker.org>
Message-ID: <4D27B687.2090000 at io.com>

On 1/7/2011 4:16 PM, Son of Witz wrote:
> I don't really think many of these emails stand alone. They are only really understood in a thread.  My snark probably seemed directed at you, but it wasn't.  Earlier the same day, i was trying to find some info about a font activation problem online, and found myself reading a list. One lister kept giving short, and even usefull replies that were 1-3 lines max, but she literally had 20 lines of sig&  quotes coming up in every post. It was easy to see that she cared about the bill of rights, but having the preamble to the Constitution in every frakking post is just annoying.   Don't even get me started about attaching logos and smilies.

I feel your pain; some people do not distinguish between license and 
liberty.

> But man, I ain't trying to tread on you, I'm just bitching while we're moaning, or is it vice versa?

It's cool, petitioning for redress of perceived wrongs is what civilized 
people do, too.  It is in the interests of informing the due process of 
justice you seek that I speak.


-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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