On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:48:16AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > Stan Hoeppner: > > Wietse Venema put forth on 4/24/2010 8:39 AM: > > > > > - Your mail server is suffering from 100x red-shift due to the > > > rapid expansion of the universe. > > > > > > Sending Postfix off into space to study time dilation effects, that > > > is an option that I haven't considered before. > > > > I deleted a very similar comment from my last email regarding "The Doctor's" > > time issues. My humor has been falling flat lately, so I err'd on the side > > of omission. ;) > > Humor is OK provided that the receiving end does not feel ridiculed. > That is of course subject to cultural differences, but there are > ways make the intent clear. > > In this case, I made my joke the end of a list of more serious > explanations for the observed delays. That should make clear that > the intent was to help with a smile, not to ridicule. > > Finally, I would appreciate it if you refrain from munging the > Subject: line when responding to this mailing list. Do not prepend > [pfx] tags, and do not post follow-ups without Re: prefix. I don't > care what you do outside this mailing list. > > Wietse
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