Chrome on Ubuntu: Install it now, show interest in promoting companies to write Linux software!

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 16:53:36 UTC 2009


2009/6/10 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
>> I have a special message for e-mail newbies that complain about top posting:
>
>
> I have a special message for e-mail newbies that insist on top posting:
> *plonk*
>
> I've been using email since you were using crayons. Don't try pulling
> the newbie stick with me, guppy. In my day email was _per_machine_ (no
> silly @ in the address), both ways uphill, and console based because
> there was no GUI. Text formatting? The printer even had a fixed-font
> daisy wheel! Top posting? If you'd waste four bits of bandwidth the NA
> would beat your two bits into a one-bit hole. Now get off my lawn.
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen
>
> http://what-is-what.com
> http://gibberish.co.il

[Applause]

 - Liam P.
(First Internet email address acquired, 1985; using Linux since 1996.)

-- 
Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven
Email: lproven at cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lproven at gmail.com
Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419
AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven
MSN: lproven at hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list