Re: Linux Advocates: Only bad thing is the license!

From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (spamtrap_at_library.lspace.org.invalid)
Date: 12/23/04


Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:25:32 -0500

begin In <cqcef6$9hp$1@neuromancer.cse.psu.edu>, on 12/22/2004
   at 06:29 PM, groenvel@cse.psu.edu (John D Groenveld) said:

>It also read similar to Microsoft apologists who whine that I should
>grow up and upgrade my MUA or NNTP client when I ask them to
>encrypting there messages in HTML, XML, or other Microstupid
>encodings to ASCII forums.

No. Follow-ups and cross-posting are part of RFC 1036. Cross-posting
is only bad when the list of news groups is too long or includes
inappropriate groups.

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