OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri Feb 17 00:22:11 UTC 2006


Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 16:57 -0400, Brian Mury wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 21:42 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
>>
>>>On 2/16/06, Brian Mury <brianmury at alumni.uvic.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 13:26 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>No, I'd like for you to abide by the written rules here: plain ASCII
>>>>>english text only, no HTML. See the Fedora web site.
>>>>
>>>>I visited the Fedora web site and could not find the written rules. Do
>>>>you have a URL?
>>
>>>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MailinglistGuidelines
>>
>>I found that, but it says nothing about english text only.
>>
> 
> You are welcome to use any language you chose.  However, be aware that
> since this list is English language your posts may get totally ignored
> in another language since many of us only speak English.  It is good
> netiquette to use the common language on the list for messages. 
> 
> I, for one, will plonk into the bit bucket any users who are repeatedly
> rude and do not make an attempt to fit into the society of this list.
> In other words, if they fail to comply with common netiquette rules.

This portion of this splintered thread was prompted by my request
for one of the posters not to put japanese characters into his
messages, though the body is English.

Mike
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