[OT] Blackberry (Was: 'Tone of the list' discussion)

[Thorny]

On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:22:10 -0500, Christopher Lemire posted:

> I discovered an application for the blackberry phone created by google in
> order to use gmail. It has a nice gui. I can see mail sorted as lablels,
> but unfotunately I see no way to quote text. Oh well. Can't say I didn't
> try. Right now I'm without my pc, but I should have it back home soon. If
> a 5 word line saying sent from a blackberry phone bothers you a great
> deal, you should seek mental help.
> 
[snip previous quote]

Not sure what you mean by ..."see no way to quote text", I had to trim it
from this reply.

However, perhaps you haven't fully considered the point Amedee was trying
to make. The line is nothing more than an ad for the phone and, as such,
is inappropriate for this list. Not a huge transgression, but I agree that
ads should be avoided in this technical help oriented list.

Of course, we don't like top posting either, it is a violation of the
Ubuntu Mailing List Etiquette:

http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists/etiquette

Looked at individually, each time there is a violation is no big deal in
itself and people can usually work around it but at some point of critical
mass the list suffers from lack of organization and doesn't operate as
efficiently as many of us want it to. It's always difficult to find a way
to word constructive criticism. Handling this issue in the future may
become easier, there is work to that effect in progress.