What linimon@ said. I just now noticed something. I've noticed people mentioning instances of, shall we say, "excessive bluntness" occasionally here. But, significantly more often than not, I never saw the, er, "excessively blunt" message itself. Usually, as in this case, this turns out to be because (for unrelated reasons) I go to some lengths to avoid seeing anything that was sent through gmail, even laundered through mailing lists. (This loses me some mail I regret losing, but, so far, not enough to make me take out those blocks. And note that it's not people using gmail addresses I block, but mail actually sent through gmail.) I'm wondering if perhaps this correlation works well enough for other people that dropping list mail sent through gmail could help preserve the S/N ratio of the list for those who find it low enough that dropping off the list entirely is looking attractive. (_Why_ that test correlates that way for me is an interesting, but only tangentially related, question.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 08:39:07PM -0500, Jerome H. Fine wrote: [...] Like, as if the email had been written in a browser? Or in a phone app? Intriguing idea. I have collected quite some mails from all those lists I subscribe to. I wish I could find time to explore this further. Perhaps even come to conclusion. I think I will write a note to myself about it and if I ever find the note... [...] I subscribed to this list exactly because of huge body of collective knowledge. Right now, the only ancient machines I have is 20 years old Pentium clone (my first Linux installed, probably dead, but it might be interesting to give it a try) and maybe some 12-15 years old Compaq iPAQ PDA (back in time I replaced WindowsCE with Linux, very pleasurable experience to have it in a pocket, despite some weight, possibly still boots, will have to check). So I am not too much of a collector :-). However, I keep collecting scraps of knowledge, a piece a time, in my own slooooooow manner. Thus it makes me a bit uneasy when I see people going away. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com **

I concur. While my interaction with you has been limited to the list, in my experience you have been unfailingly polite. That's not to say you haven't called idiocy idiocy; it's entirely possible to do that while remaining polite. Polite != nice, after all.) I think we all ahve such moments. I know I certainly do. :-) I sometimes say that ignorance is curable but stupid is forever. :-) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

On 2/6/2016 10:22 AM, Liam Proven wrote: On the other hand, Liam, maybe some people should just grow a bit of a thicker skin and understand that other cultures can be different. - J.

On 2/6/2016 4:14 PM, drlegendre . wrote: I recall you and I had words at one time, but you've helped me sense and I value having you on the list and as an associate here. That's just the way things go. If you don't get vulgar and fuss about things like that, I see no reason not to fuss from time to time and go on. Thanks Jim