Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-20 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:17:32 -0400 David Robinow wrote: > > I found said joke rather funny :P > Perhaps, as a retired amateur comedian, my standards are too high, How does one retire from amateur status? Do you suddenly start charging for telling jokes? :-) > but I don't think adding a smilie

Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-20 Thread David Robinow
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Alec Taylor wrote: >> ... > I found said joke rather funny :P Perhaps, as a retired amateur comedian, my standards are too high, but I don't think adding a smilie to a stupid post suddenly turns it into a joke. Nevertheless, the quality of the attempt is not reall

Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-20 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:10:49 -0400 Rodrick Brown wrote: > It's not the end of the world calm down I thought it was quite funny for a > friday joke! The first message might have been funny (if you are twelve) but the rest were annoying and insulting. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain | Democracy i

Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-20 Thread Alec Taylor
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > > > On Friday, August 19 at 17:12 (-0400), Matty Sarro said: > >> >> If you're that offended then spend the cycles fixing the damn list so >> it >> stops having so much spam. You realize spam comes in almost >> constantly, >> right? Enoug

Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-19 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Friday, August 19 at 17:12 (-0400), Matty Sarro said: > > If you're that offended then spend the cycles fixing the damn list so > it > stops having so much spam. You realize spam comes in almost > constantly, > right? Enough that multiple tines over the past weeks there have been > no > less

Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-19 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:12:40 -0400 Matty Sarro wrote: > It was a joke, no need to be a prick about it. It was spam. You're the prick. If you think spam is funny it's because you aren't the one that has to spend your time dealing with the fallout. > If you're that offended then spend the cycl

Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-19 Thread Matty Sarro
Glad someone has a sense of humor :) If one person smiled I consider it a success. Happy weekend! On Aug 19, 2011 5:12 PM, "Rodrick Brown" wrote: > It's not the end of the world calm down I thought it was quite funny for a friday joke! > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 19, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Stev

Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-19 Thread Matty Sarro
It was a joke, no need to be a prick about it. If you're that offended then spend the cycles fixing the damn list so it stops having so much spam. You realize spam comes in almost constantly, right? Enough that multiple tines over the past weeks there have been no less than 3 threads about it. If

Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-19 Thread Rodrick Brown
It's not the end of the world calm down I thought it was quite funny for a friday joke! Sent from my iPhone On Aug 19, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Matty Sarro wrote: > >> That's great - but do they program in python? > > Thanks for that, I didn't see the spam the first time,

Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Matty Sarro wrote: > That's great - but do they program in python? Thanks for that, I didn't see the spam the first time, but thanks to your "joke" I saw it now! I really appreciate that, because I LOVE to have spam sent to me, including all the URLs. An extra bonus is that when the posting is ar