[lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 20 May 2019 at 17:54, Mark F <azdays15 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Gmail is interesting because when I hit "reply" it puts two blank lines above the quoted text -- almost seducing the respondent to type above.

Adult life is all about learning not to accept every temptation life
throws at you.

Gmail is a clever tool, because it allows actual competent email users
to use it properly, but also supports the clueless methods of those
who were damaged by using Microsoft Outlook and other broken corporate
time-wasting engines.

> But, you're also right. Of all the things in the world to worry about and control... how people participate in conversations seems like it would be a tiring obsession.

And *this* is the core of the problem.

Top-posters don't expend the effort to quote properly, and they fail
to do so because they have not expended the small amount of cognitive
effort to learn how to use this wonderfully powerful tool correctly.
So they do what is quickest, and to hell with everyone else, to hell
with threading, to hell with group discussions, to hell with 2 human
generations' worth of R&D into electronic communications.

Ignore all that. Type at the top. I'm too busy to learn to drive, I
just need to get to work.

And then they call those of us who know how to drive "tiresome" and
"obsessive" and complain that we keep going on about rules and style.

Web fora are for those who have not learned to use email properly.

I do not spend my time attempting to communicate by placing alphabet
blocks in stacks that spell out my sentences, because I am not 2 years
old. And no, I do not really want to take the time to stack blocks
again just so I can talk with others who *only* know stacking alphabet
blocks and never learned to write.

Because, and I am sorry if this is a shocking or offensive statement,
but I find that people who never learned to write don't usually have
anything very interesting to say.

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