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[Randy Jonasz]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Jamon Camisso <jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> On 28/05/13 12:08 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> > It is with the professional set. You can send and receive it on Outlook,
> > Blackberry, iPhone, OS X Mail (if you're a “creative”) or Android (if
> > you're an engineer). That's 999‰ of the business ecosystem.
>
> This list is distinctly *not* driven by the business ecosystem, or the
> legal, or the xyz system. It is a technical mailing list for Linux based
> discussions, for and by people who ought to know enough to adhere to a
> common standard of discourse. After all that's what computers and
> operating systems are, standardized computational tools, from CPU
> architectures, memory allocation best practices, up to UTF8 email
> messages and beyond.
>

Agreed, a community cannot  survive without language rules.  But I wonder
what all the hot air is about html posting.  Technology should be an
enabler not a disciplinary tool.  In this case HTML5 posts present the
possibility of receiving video mail.  Do I hear singing telegrams coming to
tlug?

Randy
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