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Re: LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 10-12-06

  • Subject: Re: LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 10-12-06
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:18:48 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Netscape
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__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 11 December 2006 12:53 \__

> begin  oe_protect.scr
> Jamie Hart <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> cc wrote:
>>> 
>>> Alright sure, I can see that. But by the same token, not many of us are
>>> reading all your posts to begin with, and we still find them. Anyway,
>>> my main point was, that having both a digest and all your original News
>>> posts is repetative, and harmful. No one who discusses your news
>>> articles and points out any flaws(intentional or not) is going to come
>>> back and do the same thing here for the digest. And vice versa. Why not
>>> just have one or the other so at least anyone reading the news posts
>>> can see the criticism/corrections as well?
>>> 
>> Because a digest of the news posts was requested by Hadron Quark.
>> 
>> I really don't know why he thought a digest was a good idea, but Mark
>> kindly provided one for him.
> 
> Absolutely correct - I hadn't even considered it until Mr Quark
> suggested the idea.  Timmy helped by offering some guidance with respect
> to formatting it, too.  It just goes to show that cooperation can
> cross all kinds of barriers, doesn't it?

It's kind of like a man on death row choosing the weapon with which execution
is to take place, instead of choosing that last meal. Okay, that was a
morbid analogy, but clearly it wasn't their intention to have something
delivered for which they now have regrets. We used to give Novell our
support, no?

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