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[Jason Clinton]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>---- Original Message -----
>From: "Jason Clinton" <clintonj at umkc.edu>
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>>Ok, this is the fourth person to ask so here's the explination once and
>>for all:
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>So you've had four people note that if you have anything interesting to say,
>we can't see it because of your arrogant attitude toward the most common
>mail software on the net, and your reply is pretty much that you don't give
>a hoot.
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Hardly arrogancy. If anyone is guilty of arrogancy it's on the part of
Microsoft for continuing to utilize their market share to squash
competition. Nevermind, of course, that Microsoft is pushing their own
digital signature products...

>This has been said so many times some people seem to think it no longer
>needs saying, or to have simply forgotten it: IF YOU ARE POSTING TO A PUBLIC
>MAILING LIST, ASSUME THE LEAST COMMON DENOMINATOR FOR MAIL READING SOFTWARE,
>POST PLAIN, UNADORNED ASCII TEXT, DO NOT USE ELABORATE SIGNATURES, DO NOT
>INCLUDE BINARY ENHANCEMENTS OR ATTACHMENTS, AND USE THE COMMON LANGUAGE OF
>THE LIST (in this case American English).
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As if the viruses and security holes weren't enough of a problem alone
to get away from a MS Email Client!? I honesly expects so much more
intelligence from the people on a LUG mailing list of all places.

>Linux is all about doing it your own way though, and we can all just skip
>over your unreadable messages like so much spam.
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Your loss, not mine.