From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
To: Peter T Mount <psqlhack@retep.org.uk>
Cc: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih+mail@Hamartun.Priv.NO>
Cc: Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Off-topic: Communication. (was: Connect string again)
Date: 27 May 1998 16:14:03 -0700
Message-ID: <v6solvgvd0.fsf@flame.lh.vix.com> (raw)
References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980527210347.12053A-100000@retep.org.uk>
Peter T Mount <psqlhack@retep.org.uk> writes:
> What anoys me more with their versions of the "standards" is that they
> don't even keep to them within their own product range, or even with
> different versions of the same product.
What annoys me even more than that is that there is a growing group of
people who actually think that Microsoft invented the web, email (even
SMTP) and TCP.
I know it is hard to believe, but these people exist. They must be stopped.
> > These days, it's not always so easy. In many of the fora I follow,
> > things are still the way they were. The NetBSD mailing lists, for
> > instance, are easy to read -- almost everybody follows conventions.
>
> That's most probably because they are reading them on NetBSD machines.
Some are, some are not. We get many questions on the NetBSD mailing list
from "newbies" who format things right. I think the difference is we
aren't flooded by Microsloth's Following who just want to run the latest
cool toy.
--Michael
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