New posting rules for Fedora List, From Linus.

Trevor "TeC" Christian trevor at bouyon.dalive.com
Fri Apr 1 16:17:14 UTC 2005


Henry Hartley 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?  ;)
>  
>
The source email address "aprilthefirst at gmail.com" is what suggested 
that to me...

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