Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

["Greg Wallace" <gregwallace@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, May 04, 2006 @ 6:24 PM, Orn Hansen wrote:

>Föstudaginn, þann 5 maí 2006 01:03 skrifaði Ken Schneider:
>> These "rules" as they are called were in place long before you (or I,
>> and I have been a member since around 1998-99) joined the list and have
>> served to help cut down on some of the posts to the list. Since this
>> list has thousands of people subscribed to it and can generate over 200
>> emails a day every little bit helps. And yes there are still people on
>> this list that are -forced- to use metered dial-up so <snipping> out
>> parts you are not answering and -not- using html does help their online
>> bill from getting overly large. So, you have two choices - either accept
>> the ways of this list or leave the list and start your own with your own
>> rules.
>>
>> --
>> Ken Schneider
>> UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998


>"As long as you're just hanging there, pay attention. Must, should, do,
>don't, 
>shall, shall not -- those are just mere suggestions. There are only two 
>absolute rules. What a man can do. And what a man can't do."

So you're saying the "rules", which you agreed to when you joined this
group, are really just suggestions that one can take or leave, do I
understand you correctly?

Greg Wallace