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[Douglas Pollard]

Odd wrote:
> Samuel Thurston, III wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Odd <iodine at runbox.no> wrote:
>>     
>>>> For those of us who've been posting to lists since the late 80's
>>>> and early 90's, this recent trend of screwing up the headers is a
>>>> real pain.
>>>>         
>>> No it isn't. I've used mailing list since the late 80s myself. So
>>> i'm clearly not a part of those you imagine support your view. And 
>>> I imagine there are many other old-timers who agree with me, not
>>> you.
>>>       
>> I suppose so, but you're clearly not going to convince me that your 
>> way is right, and I'm guessing it's less likely that I'm going to 
>> convince you.  So let's "agree to disagree" and let this thread die 
>> the death it should die.  It's been brought up enough times that if
>> it was going to be changed it would have changed.
>>     
>
> Agreed.
>
>   
        I have come to the conclusion that I am just going to click 
reply to and you guys will have to ban me from your in boxes.  That of 
course means there will be a whole in every discussion I post to and 
sounder can do something or nothing.  When a thing is done different 
than the way everyone else does it because of some obscure rule the rule 
is wrong.  That is unless the rule is made by GOD.  A programmer does a 
thing to make his job easier and the end users job harder then he is 
wrong not the user. 
       This is in my opinion the main thing wrong with free and open 
source.  As an individual I don't have a vote in how things are done 
unless I can program, or at least my vote doesn't carry any weight.  If 
I buy a program I am voting with my  money and I can always take my 
vote  someplace else.  Having said this I don't want to vote with 
money,  so I am sort of stuck with Open source. I will just carry on my 
own way and one day maybe  they will throw me off this list or fix the 
problem.  If I am banned from every bodies in box my posts will go no 
place and the future of mankind will be less by some tiny amount :-)
                                                                         
                                                                        
         Doug