Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-17 Thread Alan Balmer
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 02:31:33 GMT, Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 14 Oct 2005 19:01:42 -0700, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or >quoted : > >> >>Q: Microsoft's Operating System is used over 90% of PCs. If that's >>not monopoly, i don't know what is. > >They got where they are

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-10 Thread Alan Balmer
On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 00:03:05 +0200, Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In any case, html email is here to stay. Or perhaps I should remove html >and say "richly formatted", whatever that might mean in the future. > >But trying to keep your email world into a pure text-based >no-

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-10 Thread Alan Balmer
On 9 Oct 2005 13:12:43 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> My grandma doesn't put captions in her photo album, >> and she doesn't need captions on her photos in email. > >She doesn't need captions in the album because she will explain the >pictures, at length, every single one of them, to anyone wh

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-10 Thread Alan Balmer
On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 20:43:12 GMT, Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:57:13 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gordon >Burditt) wrote or quoted : > >>HTML enables a heck of a lot of problems: "web bugs" in email, >>links to fake sites that appear as real ones in what shows up >>

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-04 Thread Alan Balmer
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:14:45 GMT, Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:32:09 -0500, l v <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted : > >>I think e-mail should be text only. > >I disagree. Your problem is spam, not HTML. Spam is associated with >HTML and people have in Pavlovi

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Alan Balmer
On 1 Sep 2005 03:51:55 -0700, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Python's Documentation Thinking about it, I can't imagine why I've waited so long to filter this idiot. -- Al Balmer Balmer Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-30 Thread Alan Balmer
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:30:19 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Alan Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On 29 Aug 2005 21:12:13 GMT, John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>&

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-29 Thread Alan Balmer
On 29 Aug 2005 21:12:13 GMT, John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now, go away. And please, stay away. > >Like I already said, it doesn't work that way. Goodbye, John. Filters set. -- Al Balmer Balmer Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-29 Thread Alan Balmer
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:47:10 GMT, Chris Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This point I agree with. There are some situations - 'net cafes included >- - where thick e-mail clients don't work. Even so, see below. I use Portable Thunderbird, on a USB memory stick. All I need is a USB port and an inte

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-29 Thread Alan Balmer
Why on earth was this cross-posted to comp.lang.c.? Followups set. On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:26:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In comp.lang.perl.misc Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>> In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris Head