Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:48:59 -0500 From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> To: em1897@aol.com Cc: freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de Subject: Re: A Riddle Message-ID: <1e300cbbe016b3498b392803cb59b8fe@chrononomicon.com> In-Reply-To: <8C700FE8F93100E-4B8-3C321@mblk-d50.sysops.aol.com> References: <200503251653.j2PGr3j01842@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <8C6FF97EBDFE0EC-A44-3796E@mblk-d34.sysops.aol.com> <9e46c99e05032514415054a44e@mail.gmail.com> <4244962A.6090607@makeworld.com> <plop858y4azl7c.fsf@gnu-rox.org> <8C700348197B88C-EAC-39749@mblk-d17.sysops.aol.com> <42458C4C.9040603@makeworld.com> <8C700417DCC63B0-380-38F13@mblk-d39.sysops.aol.com> <20050326215959.5c342118@localhost> <8C700FE8F93100E-4B8-3C321@mblk-d50.sysops.aol.com>
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On Mar 27, 2005, at 11:09 AM, em1897@aol.com wrote: > Firstly, anyone who uses their own server for lists is > a complete idiot. Do you have an actual reason to back up this assertion? > Are you trying to insult everyone > who has found AOL or Yahoo or Gmail to be more > convenient for not clogging their server with lists > traffic? Or do you just feel important because you > laid out the $20 for your own domain? What if they just don't want people storing the content of their email and are competent enough to manage their own server? Or what if they have their own domain but it is virtually hosted within a larger service provider? > And YES, they do default to top posting. You hit > reply, and you get this (see below). See what? > Its not really > conducive to bottom posting, and when you do > a google search and hit a long thread you read the > answer you want first, rather than having to page > down 200 times. Your browser can't do a search within the page and highlight what you're looking for? > If you're over 50 and once > used a pdp11 then you may argue the opposite, > but times are a-changing, so get with it. So because the rest of the "new netizen order" are mentally defective, everyone else must retard themselves to fit in with the sheeple? Aren't you that tmblahblah@aol.com that keeps harassing people then gets kicked off the list, only to show up again as a slightly altered alias? Methinks that is the real reason you use web mail providers...using your own domain for harassing people would make it too easy to block you. -Bart
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