Billy Holmes schrieb:
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> Because oct 31 is the same as dec 25.
>
> bah.. you beat me to it.. dupe post
:)
Well, how do they say? 2nd place is 1st loser? *G*
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Alexander Skwar wrote:
Because oct 31 is the same as dec 25.
bah.. you beat me to it.. dupe post
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Holly Bostick wrote:
Oooh, so it's a double joke (in both binary and decimal). Now I like it
even more.
ok.. I have another geeky joke for you, then..
Why do programmers always confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because oct31 = dec25
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Alexander Skwar wrote:
Than why did you top post?
More importantly: Why do you full quote?
trimming is good
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Denis wrote:
>Why go through all this trouble trying to learn how to set up Mozilla
>mail? What's the benefit? I have been using YahooMail and GMail
>quite happily, where you have an easy, no-frills, light-weight
>interface, where you can customize exactly how you want to compose
>your response
Why go through all this trouble trying to learn how to set up Mozilla
mail? What's the benefit? I have been using YahooMail and GMail
quite happily, where you have an easy, no-frills, light-weight
interface, where you can customize exactly how you want to compose
your response and arrange quotes
Holly,
Well, I do have that little box checked and it displays Subject, From,
Reply to, Date and To. I just didn't look. I'm really bad at names, I
may have mentioned this before. I remember Holly because I know this
really nice girl named Holly that lives over hear that I meet. She was
a real
Dale schreef:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
>>
>> Sometimes this 'educating' may sound much harsher than ment - but
>> don't forget, that for a lot of people on this (or every public)
>> mailing list english is only the second or third language - and
>> hitting the right 'tone' is not easy, if yo
Dale schreef:
> I wonder which one worked, the telling it to ask first, which it
> didn't, or setting the domain thing.
I don't know why the asking thing didn't work (I'd have to look, and
it's not really important anymore), but the domain thing doesn't have to
ask you, because you've told it wh
Dale wrote:
I can't tell any difference over here. It looks the same to me. <
scratches head >
Mozilla/Thunderbird will 'interpret' plain-text messages, so for example
when you see this in Thunderbird, you will see that /this is italic/,
*this is bold*, and _this is underlined_. No HTM
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
>you are correct, english was my second language (and latin my third).
>
>And I was so bad in english that I had to redo 7th grade... ;)
>
>Glück Auf
>Volker
>
>
>
Don't worry, my english ain't all that great either. Bad part is, I
only know english. O_O
Dale
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On Monday 31 October 2005 15:43, Dale wrote:
>
> Thanks, I needed that. Can I assume english is not your native
> language? The writing was fine, the name gave it away though. I do
> like to read those who have bad english sometimes. It may take me a
> minute to figure it out but they need hel
Qian Qiao wrote:
>
>It's just like moving into a new neighbourhood, you have to take your
>time to get acquainted, it is natural to feel a bit uncomfortable at
>the begining, but that's not how it is. Once you get used to things,
>you'll be part of that neighbourhood.
>
>
I live in the country,
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
>Hi,
>
>nobody wants to hurt, harm or insult you.
>
>It is just that 95% of all public mailing lists have this two simple rules:
>no top posting
>no html
>
>A lot of people don't even read html mails, some even get angry about them, so
>when somebody tells you, not to
Qian Qiao wrote:
>On 10/31/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm not sure that last one worked right either. It was supposed to ask
>>before sending, it didn't. I added this domain to plain text, something
>>I just lucked up and found in preferences. Maybe this will work. Let
>>me kn
Dale schrieb:
> Well, I have Mozilla set up to send both types, plain and HTML, so that
> you can get whatever you want.
Yes, you can setup Mozilla that way.
> It makes it take longer to send over my
> slow dial-up but I thought it polite, maybe it is not after all.
HTML most often ist not pol
On 10/31/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Funny, I feel turned upside down. I'm not everybody else either, I'm
> me. I like to help people but I don't want to change who I am to do it.
It's just like moving into a new neighbourhood, you have to take your
time to get acquainted, it is natura
On 10/31/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure that last one worked right either. It was supposed to ask
> before sending, it didn't. I added this domain to plain text, something
> I just lucked up and found in preferences. Maybe this will work. Let
> me know if it does or not.
It
Hi,
nobody wants to hurt, harm or insult you.
It is just that 95% of all public mailing lists have this two simple rules:
no top posting
no html
A lot of people don't even read html mails, some even get angry about them, so
when somebody tells you, not to send them, (s)he does it to help you.
T
Qian Qiao wrote:
>>You are not turning yourself upside down, and you don't have to. Not
>>sending HTML and try not to top-post isn't that hard to do, almost
>>everybody else on this list knows how to do that, and I don't see why
>>you can't.
>>
>>-- Joe
>>
>>
>>
I'm not sure that last one work
Qian Qiao wrote:
>You are not turning yourself upside down, and you don't have to. Not
>sending HTML and try not to top-post isn't that hard to do, almost
>everybody else on this list knows how to do that, and I don't see why
>you can't.
>
>-- Joe
>
>
>
Funny, I feel turned upside down. I'm not
On 10/31/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Holly Bostick wrote:
> Dale schreef:
> If I am that big of a headache, so sorry I came here. I used to wonder why
> more people didn't try to help people that use Linux, I beginning to see
> why. You join a list and have to turn yourself upside
Holly Bostick wrote:
Dale schreef:
Well, I have Mozilla set up to send both types, plain and HTML, so
that you can get whatever you want. It makes it take longer to send
over my slow dial-up but I thought it polite, maybe it is not after
all.
In that case, you're
Dale schreef:
> Well, I have Mozilla set up to send both types, plain and HTML, so
> that you can get whatever you want. It makes it take longer to send
> over my slow dial-up but I thought it polite, maybe it is not after
> all.
In that case, you're wasting your own bandwidth, since many of
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Dale schrieb:
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Dale schrieb:
Well I have to have HTML because I use email for a LOT more than just
this list.
And why do you need HTML there?
Anyway, Mozilla/Thunderb
> Well I have to have HTML because I use email for a LOT more than just
> this list.
>
> Because I send pictures and make my text have color and all that stuff.
> Ain't that HTML? Ain't no list getting between me and my lady. No way!
You're guilty of terrible bad taste :) . I exchange pl
Alexander Skwar schreef:
> Holly Bostick schrieb:
>
>>The other joke is similar, but goes like this
>>
>>There are 10 kinds of people in the world
>>Those who understand binary, and those who don't
>>
>>("1" is "yes" in binary language, which only consists of the "letters" 1
>>and 0, and is the ba
Dale schreef:
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
>
>> Dale schrieb:
>>
>>> Well I have to have HTML because I use email for a LOT more than
>>> just this list.
>>
>> And why do you need HTML there?
>>
>> Anyway, Mozilla/Thunderbird makes it very easy to decide if HTML is
>> used or not - when you set t
Dale schrieb:
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
>
>>Dale schrieb:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Well I have to have HTML because I use email for a LOT more than just
>>>this list.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>And why do you need HTML there?
>>
>>Anyway, Mozilla/Thunderbird makes it very easy to decide if
>>HTML is used or not - when
Antoine schrieb:
>>>I can't change the whole world just for one list.
>>
>>
>> No need to. Even in other mails, there's seldom a need
>> for HTML in mails.
>
> I too am interested in useful contexts for html. I just can't think of
> any situation where I wouldn't use structured text markup in
Holly Bostick schrieb:
> Dale schreef:
>> he's trying to say computers can't count.
No, I'm not.
> The other joke is similar, but goes like this
>
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world
> Those who understand binary, and those who don't
>
> ("1" is "yes" in binary language, which only con
Qian Qiao schrieb:
> On 10/30/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Dale schrieb:
>> Me too. Badly translated joke. It should read: There are 10
>> kinds of people. Then it is funny.
>
> It takes a bit of time to get the joke, :) It has nothing to do with
> binary system. :P
While we'
Dale schreef:
> Qian Qiao wrote:
>
>
>> On 10/30/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Dale schrieb: Me too. Badly translated joke. It should read:
>>> There are 10 kinds of people. Then it is funny.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It takes a bit of time to get the joke, :) It has nothi
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Dale schrieb:
Well I have to have HTML because I use email for a LOT more than just
this list.
And why do you need HTML there?
Anyway, Mozilla/Thunderbird makes it very easy to decide if
HTML is used or not - when you set the default to text/plai
I can't change the whole world just for one list.
No need to. Even in other mails, there's seldom a need
for HTML in mails.
I too am interested in useful contexts for html. I just can't think of
any situation where I wouldn't use structured text markup in an email.
Sure, I might *attach*
Dale schrieb:
> Well I have to have HTML because I use email for a LOT more than just
> this list.
And why do you need HTML there?
Anyway, Mozilla/Thunderbird makes it very easy to decide if
HTML is used or not - when you set the default to text/plain,
you hold down shift while you click on the
Qian Qiao wrote:
On 10/30/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dale schrieb:
Me too. Badly translated joke. It should read: There are 10
kinds of people. Then it is funny.
It takes a bit of time to get the joke, :) It has nothing to do with
binary system. :P
-
On 10/30/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dale schrieb:
> Me too. Badly translated joke. It should read: There are 10
> kinds of people. Then it is funny.
It takes a bit of time to get the joke, :) It has nothing to do with
binary system. :P
-- Joe
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* On 30.10.2005 Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Me too. Badly translated joke. It should read: There are 10
> kinds of people. Then it is funny
Oh, it is funny. The joke you mean is slightly different and has
something to do with the binary system ;-)
So long,
tkr
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Stewie: [bathing in blood] This
John Jolet wrote:
On Sunday 30 October 2005 16:30, Richard Fish wrote:
But since top-posters are too lazy to scroll to the end of a message, or
trim the original before replying, I'm guessing they will be too lazy to
follow the link and read the RFC. So I'll quote the relevant section here:
Holly Bostick wrote:
>Dale schreef:
>
>
> Speaking of settings, mail can be set to be sent as plain text by
>
>default in Thunderbird/Mozilla Mail as follows (the settings given are
>for Thunderbird, but the Mozmail settings are very nearby in terms of
>finding them, if not exactly the same):
>
On Sunday 30 October 2005 16:30, Richard Fish wrote:
> But since top-posters are too lazy to scroll to the end of a message, or
> trim the original before replying, I'm guessing they will be too lazy to
> follow the link and read the RFC. So I'll quote the relevant section here:
Personally, I pref
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Yep. That's why bullshit like this shouldn't be done. Quotes should
be done in the way I do it. Not because I do it (that's no reason),
but because that's the way it's been done for a long time and (more)
importantly, because it's been proven to be good.
And the proof i
Holly Bostick schrieb:
> Alexander Skwar schreef:
>> Dale schrieb:
>>> Well, I'm trying to find out where to change it in Mozilla.
>>
>> Change "what" in Mozilla? There's nothing that you can change.
>
> Oh for Pete's sake, Alexander. You can so change stuff in Mozilla-- it's
> a *software suite
I'm going to take a bath and soak a while. I have a skin disease and
cool/cold weather makes it mad. :(
Come and live in Bordeaux then! It was 24°C today... I knew there was a
reason we moved here :-)
Cheers
Antoine
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Alexander Skwar schreef:
> Dale schrieb:
>
>
>> Well, I'm trying to find out where to change it in Mozilla.
>
>
> Change "what" in Mozilla? There's nothing that you can change.
Oh for Pete's sake, Alexander. You can so change stuff in Mozilla-- it's
a *software suite*, containing a web browser
Dale schrieb:
> Qian Qiao wrote:
>>Well done, :)
>>
>>Trimming could be extremely useful, when you see a thread with over 30
>>replies.
> Honestly, I like it all together in one place.
Me too. It's all in a folder containing all the mails. Further,
there are archives on the web.
> That way yo
Dale schrieb:
> I found it.
Found "what"?
> Is this better?
Better than what? Your previous way of top posting? No,
it's not better. It's as bad.
> I'm a bottom feeder, um poster.
Bad.
> LOL I
> even took out some of the clutter above.
THIS is good. But you should take out even more.
Dale schrieb:
> Well, I'm trying to find out where to change it in Mozilla.
Change "what" in Mozilla? There's nothing that you can change.
You just read and insert your comments where appropriate and
delete what's no longer relevant.
Alexander Skwar
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Dale schreef:
>
>> Alexander Skwar wrote:
>>
>> Don't send out HTML, please. Especially, if you don't make use of
>> HTML features, as it then only wastes bandwidth with nothing useful
>> being added.
>
> Well, I'm trying to find out where to change it in Mozilla.
Speaking of settings, mail c
On 10/30/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Qian Qiao wrote:
> It can? Oh. I didn't know that.
www.gmane.org
> Are you accusing me of having a sense of humor? LOL Maybe I'm the third
> kind. < scratches head >
Here's the answer: cos I can't count, :P
-- Joe
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Qian Qiao wrote:
On 10/30/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You don't have to keep the messages, archive of this list can be found
on the net.
It can? Oh. I didn't know that.
The setting is under mail and server settings by the way.
Your sig confuses me. Three kin
On 10/30/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Qian Qiao wrote:
> Honestly, I like it all together in one place. That way you don't have
> to dig for it. I delete emails that are more than a week or so old. I
> do save the ones that have passwords to sites I have joined or something
> but the re
Qian Qiao wrote:
>
>Well done, :)
>
>Trimming could be extremely useful, when you see a thread with over 30 replies.
>
>-- Joe
>
>
>
Honestly, I like it all together in one place. That way you don't have
to dig for it. I delete emails that are more than a week or so old. I
do save the ones t
On 10/30/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>
> I found it. Is this better? I'm a bottom feeder, um poster. LOL I
> even took out some of the clutter above.
>
Well done, :)
Trimming could be extremely useful, when you see a thread with over 30 replies.
-- Joe
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There are 3 k
Dale wrote:
>
> Well, I'm trying to find out where to change it in Mozilla. I'm not
> having any luck either. I know I saw it once but I left it like it
> was. I don't change to many settings unless they are just something I
> see here, desktop settings or something.
>
> I just joined this thin
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Dale schrieb:
I agree with your reasons
I don't. Totally wrong. In every aspect.
but some of the others have reasons too. I do
like my reason better though. LOL I put LOL for those who read text
only and not HTML. LOL, again.
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