Re: survival skills for teenage geeks
* Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder (avbidder@fortytwo.ch) wrote:
and you top-posted!
PLONKL!!!!!!!1!!!!!!1!
> And you quoted an entire message for ONE line of original text
> -- vbi
>
> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 08:23, criggie wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:48:31 -0600
> > "Nathan E Norman" <nnorman@incanus.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:24:38PM +0100, Miernik wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:25:38AM +1300, criggie wrote:
> > > > > > And while I'm complaining, I have the goddamn Mail-Followup-To:
> > > > > > header set, please stop sending me carbon-copies of list posts!
> > > > >
> > > > > Personally I'd rather receive a message twice than possibly miss
> > > > > it completely.
> > > >
> > > > Going this way, why not just set up the mailing list server to send
> > > > each message twice to everyone, just in case the first copy does not
> > > > get there? :)
> > >
> > > Why stop at two? Pick a random number from 2 to 2^31
> > > (My sig is less annoying than ypurs :-)
> >
> > And your sig is 10x the length of your message...
> >
> > > --
> > > Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
> > >
> > > Ozymandias
> > >
> > > I met a traveler from an antique land
> > > Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
> > > Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
> > > Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
> > > And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
> > > Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
> > > Which yet survive (stamped on these lifeless things),
> > > The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
> > > And on the pedestal these words appear:
> > > 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
> > > Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
> > > Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
> > > Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
> > > The lone and level sands stretch far away."
> > >
> > > -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
> > >
> --
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