On Wednesday 10 April 2002 20:30, Simon Hepburn wrote: > Scott Henson wrote: > > Ok thats just not cool. You dont have to do that. This is an open > > list. And I believe it is against the inclusive philosophy of the > > Debian project as a whole to exclude someone for such a stupid > > purpose. > > Seconded. This goes totally against the spirit of Debian. It's not > hard to filter this stuff out if you find it irritating. I think the > suggestion to refuse list posts from outlook express is pretty > moronic, if it was meant seriously. It is not an uncommon scenario > for enthusiastic debian newbies to need to post to this list from > windows to get help configuring their mail, before they are even in a > position to post from within linux. Let's not put them off with this > elitist bullshit. This list is for both *new* and experienced users, > getting a few unneccessary and stupid emails goes with the > territory. Posting snide and unhelpful comments in response to this, > does nothing to further our community's reputation.
I agree with both of you, I started reading and posting into this list from a Win95 box even before repartitioning the hard disk for the Debian installation. Now I'm very happy writing this message with KMail, reading the online newspaper with Konqueror and with a pretty Tux in the desktop wallpaper. And much of this is thanks to the help of the community members. -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running the bleeding edge Debian Sid version 3.0 Linux luni 2.4.13 #1 SMP Sun Oct 28 18:30:53 ART 2001 i686 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
