Using Ubuntu absolves the user of personal responsibility?
Jan Moren
jan.moren at lucs.lu.se
Fri Aug 4 15:55:56 UTC 2006
Filter on the names, it works wonders. In Evolution, right-click on the
message, choose to create filter from message with the sender as the
filter criterion, and set it to thow in the trash. You never have to
read anything from those people again.
fre 2006-08-04 klockan 22:47 +0100 skrev Gabriel M Dragffy:
> Like a bunch of kids in here. Can you stop filling my inbox with all
> this argumentative flame sh*t. I know that you'll tell me that I'm quite
> free to unsubscribe or some kind of abnoxious suggestion like that.
> However if it's all the same to you I'd much prefer to enjoy this list
> the way it was before this thread was born. So it's my suggestion that
> you guys take a deep breathe and move on to pastures new and put smiles
> back on your faces. Good girls!
>
> On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 21:31 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-04-08 at 09:32 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > > > It was meant as a "insult" against me.
> >
> > > You're probably right - but how does it differ, then, in any way from what
> > > you did in the first place? Michael will insist it _wasn't_ meant as an
> > > insult, but you and many others will read it that way. That's the same
> > > problem I had with your original post.
> >
> > Actually it was meant as a self-identifying insult. I deliberately
> > used the style but not the words of someone and allowed that person to
> > see himself in them and respond. I was not disappointed.
> >
> > I believe I first heard this technique used in the context of
> > something that went like "I cast a general garment and my worthy
> > claims it a tailored fit".
> >
> > --
> > Michael T. Richter
> > Email: ttmrichter at gmail.com, mtr1966 at hotpop.com
> > MSN: ttmrichter at hotmail.com, mtr1966 at hotmail.com; YIM:
> > michael_richter_1966; AIM: YanJiahua1966; ICQ: 241960658; Jabber:
> > mtr1966 at jabber.cn
> >
> > "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the
> > institution of slavery in the States where it exists." --Abraham
> > Lincoln
>
>
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Dr. Jan Morén (mr)
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