[Hijacked "Can't log into Ubuntu"] Re: remaster ubuntu alternate

[Basil Chupin]

On 05/07/12 07:47, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 07/04/2012 11:28 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 4 July 2012 16:21, Mika Suomalainen 
>> <mika.henrik.mainio at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> NOTICE! I am on mobile broadband with very limited time, so I cannot
>>> read emails very much.
>>
>> If your bandwidth is so limited, do you really need a 48kB signature?!
>>
> It might be more polite for the OP to wait until one gets home to a 
> decent computer and reply to a technical list. I'm sure the world 
> won't stop spinning if there is a delay. Unless the intention to 
> inform us that he can email from his handheld, like THAT is so Buck 
> Rodgers and that we'll all suck our cheeks in and go round-eyed in 
> amazement and envy.
>
> "I'm sorry, but my Cray X-MP/48 won't LET ME bottom post." is not an 
> excuse. It merely shows the world that you consider the computer is to 
> blame for your mistakes so you should be able to continue making them.
> Ric

Coincidentally, I made an almost identical comment about such a "bigus 
dickus" [**] signature - and which followed 2 other sigs containing the 
sender's name and another with more identifying blurb - in another mail 
list and got jumped on. Seems that it is all to do with ensuring that 
the mail is secure and being posted by the person claimed to be in the 
Header of the message; all this even though the mail is being posted in 
a public forum and which contains no confidential or secret information.

[**] Monty Python's, 'The Life of Brian'.

BC

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