[Linux-Anyway] Re: Scott Ritter

  • From: Meph Istopheles <meph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:52:12 -0700 (PDT)

> The way I understand it (and I expect to be put right by Meph
> if I'm wrong), drifting off-topic by regulars here is
> tolerated. Someone who's never, or very rarely, been seen
> posting here before opening up a thread with a political
> discussion with nothing at all to do with Linux is something a
> bit different from a regular drifting off-topic.

  I think the word you're looking for is rude.  John, you were 
rude.  Do it again, I'll have to take a finger -- that's on my 
list of unwritten rules;-).

> Mind you, saying "a *bit* different" in this context is like
> saying "Linux is a *bit* less prone to viruses and worms than
> Windows."

> And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you bring a discussion
> back on-topic :o)

  Well done!  Do you double as a diplomat, Godwin?;-)

  Meph

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  Lewis's Law of Travel:
  The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to 
  anyone, ever.
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