> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:22 PM Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > ..SNIP...
> ago now (I left MS and upgraded to privacy-respecting Linux instead of > eXPrivacy, when it came out in IIRC 2001, as I could see where they were > headed), but IIRC I had to switch to inserting the signature manually (on > push of the sig button), so I could put it after my reply instead of > before the quote, but other than that, it wasn't /too/ difficult, because > .... I too switched to Linux from Windows. It was back in 2005-06 when Fedora used to be known as Red hat Linux. I found it too difficult in the beginning, could not listen to a song, watch a video etc. > These days I'm sure I probably frustrate people in support, etc, where > the instructions say to retain the entire conversation in replies, which haha... I had those experiences too and in one or two cases, a HR guy even called me up to ask me that why I sent him his email back, that he was expecting a reply. Then I realized, he just looked at the top of the email, first few lines (quoted ones) and did not look my reply beyond that. One of my colleagues, who was a Software Engineer from half a decade, asked me how do I know about C language so much. I pointed him to comp.lang.c where he asked a question and then he expected an answer with solution as C code which he did not get. He got guidance towards solution from different users there (one of them was student of Dennis Ritchie who created C language) and my colleague got furious reading their replies. He could not get the fact that no one spoonfeeds on USENET, that it is a place where people mentor, where they do not provide solutions like teachers provide to homework in school. From my point of view, it was a great reply they gave, it was pretty clear that they gave full-attention to his question. From that day he started having hard-corner for me in everyday communication :) . It was quite unfortunate to see the same things happened with all the people I know, all the colleagues I ever met in different companies, all of them hated comp.lang.c/c++/ruby etc. You know I learned all of C language, all of my programming on USENET through Pan. If a Linux distro does not have Pan in its packaging-system and it can't build Pan from source then I will just replace it with some other Linux distro :o) . Even though now in the age of web 2.0, comp.object is dead, comp.lang.c (and c++).moderated are dead from last few years and everyone has moved to Stackexchange and other forums. I always loved Pan and will never forget those times. Long Live Pan ... -- http://uttre.wordpress.com/ https://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/c-new-operator/ _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
