ATTN SELF-STYLED LIST POLICE (was RE: Mr. Day)

[Edward]

MJang wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 17:36 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> 
>>I don't want to contribute to the main flame war. I would, however, like
>>to say that I personally would find a web-based system much harder to
>>use.
> 
> 
> This sort of begs the question - of the people who use text email
> readers, how many are older, more experienced Linux users? (in other
> words, if the rest of us bent a bit to accommodate them, perhaps they
> would be more motivated to provide better answers). It sounds like at
> least a few are stuck with text email readers on their systems.
> 
> I gather that less than 50% of users (overall) in the US have high-speed
> access (which does seem unfortunate given the penetration of high-speed
> access in other industrialized countries).
> 

50%? Wow! You don't know how lucky you guys have it.

And that's all I'll say about that as I'd never stop ;)

Regards,
Ed.