On Sat,29.Aug.09, 23:14:54, Neal Hogan wrote:
 
> > Standards are the reason we're all here. Standards are the reason we use 
> > things
> > like Debian. Standards are the reason that Debian works.
>
> It does . . . no disagreement here. But, to expect users to use the
> standards that are not clear enough to eliminate gmail as standard is
> silly. 
 
The standards are clear enough. It's just that some big corporations 
chose to ignore them (and Gmail is by far not the worst offender here).

> Certainly, there is a certain level of etiquette that "should" be
> adhered to and that is something that can/may be curbed, but as I say,
> gmail is a service that is going to be used (and is not the cause of
> impoliteness). Bitcing about gmail is silly.

As Windows is not the cause for people using their computers logged in 
as administrators. It's just that they (Windows and Gmail) make it quite 
hard to do it the right way and many people just choose the easy way.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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