New posting rules for Fedora List, From Linus.

Dave Pisarek shaggyshags at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 15:40:17 UTC 2005


On Apr 1, 2005 10:38 AM, Henry Hartley <henryhartley at westat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Apr, 2005 at 9:25 AM someone posing as Linux Torvaldz said:
> 
> >> Rule #1   Posting content format
> >> All posts to the list from this point forward must be set to have
> >> a fixed display width of 4,317 inches (or the metric equivalent,
> >> 6 millimeters).
> 
> Although the rest of this seems reasonable (for an arbitrarily large
> value of reasonable), I think someone needs to review his imperial
> to metric conversions.  4,317 inches (or 4.317 as we would say here
> in the good ol' USA) is closer to 10.97 cm.
> 
> Hey, wait a minute, if Linus really wrote that, he would have spelled
> millimeters as millimetres.  Is this a joke?  ;)
> 
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