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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: The AWK Programming Language, 2nd Ed.: What's new?
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:09:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_R3JNcB9=iRe4fuW301+t4jn56AM+VHpV6tW_cT8J7NCw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2309160602540.55293@aneurin.horsfall.org>

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On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 4:04 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:


> Are you really commenting upon the contents of someone's signature block?
>

My view has always been that it's okay to comment on them (within reason)
but not okay to complain about them.  In a .sig block, people can talk
about whatever they want, as long as the block itself is not BUAFed or
otherwise warlord-worthy.

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-15 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-13 21:28 arnold
2023-09-15  1:40 ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-09-15  3:48   ` arnold
2023-09-16 17:52     ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-09-15  3:49   ` Ajay Shah
2023-09-15  3:54     ` arnold
2023-09-15  9:09       ` KenUnix
2023-09-15 11:24         ` Dan Cross
2023-09-15 20:04         ` Dave Horsfall
2023-09-15 20:09           ` John Cowan [this message]
2023-09-15 20:17         ` Warren Toomey via TUHS
2023-09-16 17:32           ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-09-15 21:08         ` Warner Losh
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-09-16  1:20 Norman Wilson
2023-09-09 19:51 [TUHS] " markus schnalke
2023-09-09 20:13 ` [TUHS] " christopher fujino
2023-09-10 19:41 ` arnold
2023-09-10 19:59   ` Norman Wilson
2023-09-11  5:59   ` markus schnalke
2023-09-11 13:52     ` Stuff Received

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