[wellylug] OT: The Real Simpsons - URLs

[Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd]

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 17:22 +1300, Donald Gordon wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:40:42 +1300 (NZDT)
> David Murray <newslists at electronincantation.net.nz> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Richard Hector wrote:
> 
> > > On a Linux list.
> > >
> > > As a reply to an unrelated thread.
> > 
> > I DID put "OT" in a completely new subject header.
> 
> But you replied to an existing message.  Your mail client sticks
> headers in the mail that you send (that you won't normally see) as a
> signal to other more enlightened mail clients that your message is a
> reply -- and those more enlightened mail clients make use of this
> information to group threads (conversations) together.
> 
> And marking it OT may have been a sign that it might be offtopic for
> the wellylug list, and there shouldn't be posted there.  Let's face it
> -- there's not much relation between The Simpsons and Linux.
> 
> > And the choice was a format that worked or a format that didn't work.
> 
> Is it a format that works only if you violate an MS license agreement to
> install their copyrighted codec software on your Linux box?
> 
> > Did you look at it?
> > 
> > It's very well done!
> 
> That's kind of beside the point.
> 
> donald

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Looks like another flamewar....

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