Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 20:30, Simon Hepburn wrote:
> Scott Henson wrote:
> > Ok thats just not cool. You dont have to do that. This is an open
> > list. And I believe it is against the inclusive philosophy of the
> > Debian project as a whole to exclude someone for such a stupid
> > purpose.
>
> Seconded. This goes totally against the spirit of Debian. It's not
> hard to filter this stuff out if you find it irritating. I think the
> suggestion to refuse list posts from outlook express is pretty
> moronic, if it was meant seriously. It is not an uncommon scenario
> for enthusiastic debian newbies to need to post to this list from
> windows to get help configuring their mail, before they are even in a
> position to post from within linux. Let's not put them off with this
> elitist bullshit. This list is for both *new* and experienced users,
> getting a few unneccessary and stupid emails goes with the
> territory. Posting snide and unhelpful comments in response to this,
> does nothing to further our community's reputation.
I agree with both of you, I started reading and posting into this list
from a Win95 box even before repartitioning the hard disk for the
Debian installation. Now I'm very happy writing this message with
KMail, reading the online newspaper with Konqueror and with a pretty
Tux in the desktop wallpaper.
And much of this is thanks to the help of the community members.
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Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix
Running the bleeding edge Debian Sid version 3.0
Linux luni 2.4.13 #1 SMP Sun Oct 28 18:30:53 ART 2001 i686 unknown
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