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Joseph Holsten joseph at josephholsten.com
Mon Oct 7 22:10:54 PDT 2013


[shed: bike]

On 2013-10-08, at 02:57, Karel BĂ­lek <kb at karelbilek.com> wrote:

> [image: Inline image 1]
> 
> 
> 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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