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[Karel Bílek]

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On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Gregory Foster <gfoster at entersection.org>wrote:

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> On 10/7/13 7:54 PM, Al Billings wrote:
> > Get off my lawn!
> >
> > (top posted, of course!)
> >
> > -- Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org
> >
> > On Monday, October 7, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Sandy Harris wrote:
> >
> >> It is the sender's job. No-one should be sending such stuff to a
> >> public list since it serves no useful purpose. If your client
> >> won't send clean ASCII-only email, then switch to a client that
> >> will.
>
>
> May I propose an inductive hypothesis, akin to Godwin's Law[1]:
>
> As time passes on any email list configured to accept HTML email, the
> probability of the occurrence of the[2] HTML/ASCII email conversation
> approaches 1.
>
> gf
>
> [1] Wikipedia - "Godwin's Law"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
>
> [2] Note the intentional use of "the" to signify a singular
> conversation, as the substance of this conversation is always the
> same, though the outcome depends wholly on the constitution of any
> particular list's constituents.
>
> - --
> Gregory Foster || gfoster at entersection.org
> @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/
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