On 12/04/10 16:06, Tommy Pyatt wrote: > Apologies Alan, I did not mean any hostility in my response to your > email, which was a fair and reasonable comment. I just wanted to point > out that I have no problems with Paula's original email, as I'm sure I'm > not the only one.
No need to apologise. > Since I see you are using gmail, assuming that you are accessing your > mail through the standard interface, there is a function to 'Mute' > conversations if you prefer to be excluded from responses to the thread. > I use the function frequently with mailing lists. You may already know > about it, just pointing it out. Just FYI. I do have a gmail account I use solely for mailing lists but I access almost all of the many that I subscribe to via a newsreader (in this instance Thunderbird) and disable all forwarding of the mail in mailman. So I do not get *any* messages in my gmail account at all :-) FYI again, these lists, and many thousands of others, are available on news.gmane.org. Al > > Regards, > > Tommy > > (PS - '#8 - If this is your first night at ubuntu-uk, you have to > install.' i like that one, made me chuckle.) > > On 12 April 2010 15:49, Alan Lord (News) <alansli...@gmail.com > <mailto:alansli...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 12/04/10 15:13, John Matthews wrote: > > I have to admit, I wondered why such a subject should be so taboo. It > > affects us a lot more than we really would like to admit. > > > > I would genuinely like to know why it should have such a negative > > response from somebody like Alan, and why it is discouraged. > > Blimey - It wasn't intended to be "such a negative response". That is > why I phrased my message the way I did. > > I have heard and read a great deal about the debill over the past few > months, have written to my MP on several occasions and am a politically > interested individual with my own opinions. I didn't however, think that > the Ubuntu UK mailing list was the most appropriate forum for discussing > more general politics - which is what this thread had morphed into. > > Clearly I was wrong. ;-) > > > Al > > > -- > The Open Learning Centre > http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > <mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
