Re: BUG: spinlock recursion

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 19:46 -0500, Bill Polhemus wrote:
Gilboa Davara wrote:
P.S. Please don't post in HTML. Thanks.

OFF TOPIC:

FWIW, I think that in this day and age, complaining about posting in
HTML is patently ridiculous.

Either set up your list to strip out the HTML--a common technology
that's been around for years now--or just live with it.

Very, very few people use Pine or Mutt to post to email lists any more.
And I'm not just talking about those who use Outlook Express. I happen
to use Thunderbird, for example.

I happen to also LIKE HTML email. It is quite easy on the eyes,
particularly for someone like me whose eyesite isn't what it used to be.

This used to be a common complain W-A-Y 'long time ago, when most of the
Internet world was still text-based. To me, the complaint is spurious at
the present time.

Sigh....
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MailinglistGuidelines

I believe that good list citizenship usually entails following the rules
even if you don't really agree with all of them, or in this case: no
HTML and no top posting please even if you really want top post HTML
mails.
If you want to change these rules, go right ahead, post a message about
it in -devel (?) list and argue your point.

Gilboa


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