[CentOS] Nerd rage (Was: IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?)

Wed Dec 8 15:50:40 UTC 2010
Giles Coochey <giles at coochey.net>

I agree!!!



On 08/12/2010 16:46, Jerry Franz wrote:
> On 12/08/2010 07:03 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
>> Honestly, I had no one in mind.
>> I remember in an effort to get a life outside tech, I joined a mailing
>> list for something else.  I hadn't realized how most people top post,
>> don't trim, and still use aol.
> It really is worth noting that the bottom-post convention used on many
> technical lists *is not* how most of the planet now does email or other
> electronic communications. The rage we see here over it is really just
> another technical 'religious war' by people who don't tolerate change
> well. In reality, it doesn't matter much for most things either way and
> far more harm is done by the howling over it than using either
> convention actually causes.
>
> I still remember the rage sparked on the Usenet by some old timers when
> people started using JPEG and MIME rather than GIF and uuencoding. Oh,
> the horror of it.
>
> Oh, BTW:  vim over emacs.
>
> ;-)
>


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