Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

[cbannister@slingshot.co.nz]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 09:10:16AM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 06:03:12PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >On Tuesday 21 March 2017 17:15:32 Catherine Gramze wrote:
> >>Sent from my iPad
> >
> >Note it is sent from an iPad!  Open Source all the way!!!!!
> >
> >Incidentally, why did we need to know that?
> 
> These sorts of signatures are usually used on mobile devices for a number of
> reasons:
> 
> - Typing on a mobile tends to be less comfortable, or at least slower, than
> typing on a full-size keyboard. This lends to shorter, less detailed
> replies. The signature acts as a warning that "I'm not being brusque, I just
> don't have the capacity to state my case more loquaciously."
> 
> - Many mobile clients seem to restrict what you can put in a signature.  You
> generally can't use formatting (as company branding might require), you
> often can't even use multiple lines. And if you want to read your signature
> from a pipe (so as to include a witty "fortune")? Good luck!


IOW, it's an excuse for the following hard to read badly formatted text.

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The media's the most powerful entity on earth. 
They have the power to make the innocent guilty 
and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.
 -- Malcolm X