Re: (subtitle: Britannia Rules the Waves)

2004-04-21 Thread Ashesh Kumar Datta
It was not meant to be a thread , but I was simply responding to Derrik Pates regarding the need to observe netiquette (a golden rule of which as I understood it is not to capitalise words which is tantamount to shouting), but as this "thread" is rapidly degenerating into a farce (thanks to Sean Sc

Re: (subtitle: Britannia Rules the Waves)

2004-04-20 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Sean Schertell: > Yikes, I just joined this list a couple of days ago. I hope it's not always > like this... Does anyone have anything interesting to say about... oh, > let's see umm.. well, Debian PPC for example? :-D _This_ list is almost always Debian and only Debian, in my

Re: (subtitle: Britannia Rules the Waves)

2004-04-20 Thread Sean Schertell
eally end all Hitler-like behavior? > > > > -Original Message- > From: David Pye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tue 4/20/04 7:52 PM > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Subject: Re: (subtitle: Britannia Rules the Waves) > > I avoided the

RE: (subtitle: Britannia Rules the Waves)

2004-04-20 Thread Joshua Narins
Did one A Hitler really end all Hitler-like behavior? -Original Message- From: David Pye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 4/20/04 7:52 PM To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Cc: Subject:Re: (subtitle: Britannia Rules the Waves) I avoided the temptation to apply

Re: (subtitle: Britannia Rules the Waves)

2004-04-20 Thread David Pye
I avoided the temptation to apply to your obvious troll, the first time I saw it, but seeing as this has turned into a thread, I have more motivation to respond, if just to try to put the matter to sleep. > > Absolutely, but the reason for my "diatribe" was the tone of admonition in > Mr Pye's n

Re: (subtitle: Britannia Rules the Waves)

2004-04-20 Thread Diana Galletly
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Ashesh Kumar Datta wrote: > If someone has "given insufficient information" for the problem to be > diagnosed, you could - if you have an idea - indicate what further > information is required. >From what I recall of the original request, there really was insufficient informa

Re: (subtitle: Britannia Rules the Waves)

2004-04-20 Thread Ashesh Kumar Datta
on 20/4/04 1:08 am, Derrik Pates at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ashesh Datta wrote: >> I suspect Mr David Pye is living in the past, still hankering for Britain's >> long lost colonies, but he should harbour no such hope about Iraq (Churchill >> tried that in the 1920's but had to give up despite g

Re: (subtitle: Britannia Rules the Waves)

2004-04-19 Thread Derrik Pates
Ashesh Datta wrote: I suspect Mr David Pye is living in the past, still hankering for Britain's long lost colonies, but he should harbour no such hope about Iraq (Churchill tried that in the 1920's but had to give up despite gassing the Shiites in the South and putting hapless Indian troops on th

Re: Re: (subtitle: Britannia Rules the Waves)

2004-04-19 Thread Ashesh Datta
on 18/4/04 1:46 pm, David Pye at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > b) This is an English list, so writing in English would be appreciated. I suspect Mr David Pye is living in the past, still hankering for Britain's long lost colonies, but he should harbour no such hope about Iraq (Churchill tried that i