American Politics
Malcolm asked that American politics discussion be taken elsewhere rather than filling list mailboxes. InDeep mocked the request and said readers could ignore unwanted messages through a newsreader. Fernando Nunes replied that ignoring requires seeing them, hence off-topic and netiquette. DA Morgan answered sarcastically. Off-topic dispute, no outcome.
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Can I respectfully suggest that if you want to discuss American Politics then you should go elsewhere and not fill up mailboxes throughout the civilised world with your opinions. Malcolm
Excellent suggestion coming from the preeminent, cranky, angry schoolmaster, _the_ most politically charged and indignant member of the goddam iiug. Of course I find it quite puzzling in light of this being 2008, that anyone would need to read emails from comp.databases.informix when you can use Thunderbird or other news reader and simply ignore messages you don't want to read. Email? geez, that's old school! malcolm.iiug wrote: > Can I respectfully suggest that if you want to discuss American Politics > then you should go elsewhere and not fill up mailboxes throughout the > civilised world with your opinions. > > > > Malcolm >
InDeep wrote: > Excellent suggestion coming from the preeminent, cranky, angry > schoolmaster, _the_ most politically charged and indignant member of the > goddam iiug. > > Of course I find it quite puzzling in light of this being 2008, that > anyone would need to read emails from comp.databases.informix when you > can use Thunderbird or other news reader and simply ignore messages you > don't want to read. Email? geez, that's old school! > > malcolm.iiug wrote: >> Can I respectfully suggest that if you want to discuss American >> Politics then you should go elsewhere and not fill up mailboxes >> throughout the civilised world with your opinions. >> >> >> Malcolm >> Ignoring messages requires that you see what they're about. That's probably why we have concepts like "off-topic" and "netiquette". It was a simple and fair request... Regards -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently...
malcolm.iiug wrote: > Can I respectfully suggest that if you want to discuss American Politics > then you should go elsewhere and not fill up mailboxes throughout the > civilised world with your opinions. > > > > Malcolm I guess we were so overwhelmed by the number of posts from new developers trying to learn the product we forgot ourselves: Sorry. -- Daniel A. Morgan