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Re: [OT] Posting styles



On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:11:23 -0500, Indulekha wrote:

> In linux.debian.user, keith mckenzie <fatmac@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>> Decided the easiest way to stop the annoyance of 'Mika Suomalainen',
>> is to send his messages straight to 'trash'. No more half page fulls of
>> meaningless numbers/letters,&  no more requests for confirmation;
>> life has returned to normal.  :)
> 
> That's what some people don't seem to understand -- they're posting to a
> mailing list where any assistance received depends on having everyone's
> good will, yet they insist on posting all that pointless garbage, making
> their emails really annoying to read.
> 
> Certainly we are all free to do as we wish, but sometimes getting along
> with others requires certain little sacrifices. :)
> 
> In all the arguments people have made here in favor of pgp/gpg signing
> to the list, not one person even bothered to address the annoying chunk
> of non-human-readable text to which we are subjected, whether or not we
> are interested. In fact, the matter tends to get edited out in the
> pro-pgp replies. Guess what they really think is "screw you if you don't
> like it",
> underneath all the (rather silly) rationalizations.
> 
> I used to have mutt configured to verify that crap, but then guess what
> happened? I learned that half the people using it do so incorrectly, so
> then you have all these error messages.... :\
> 
> What a waste.

+1. I have killfiled Suomalainen too.


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