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From: john@nova.uucp (John Floren)
Subject: [TUHS] was turmoil, moving to rm -rf /
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:48:36 -0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnog6li4.mao.john@nova.jfloren.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.198.1493337336.3780.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>

On 2017-04-27, Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
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Ron, can you and others who are posting via email please take care to
send text-only emails? It's utterly unreadable to anyone using a newsreader
or plain old 'mail'. http://i.imgur.com/EJS5Okd.png

sorry for going off-topic...

john


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-28 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-24 22:06 [TUHS] There is turmoil in Linux-land - When did rm first avoid going upwards? Noel Chiappa
2017-04-24 22:18 ` Josh Good
2017-04-24 23:23   ` Kurt H Maier
2017-04-24 23:59     ` [TUHS] was turmoil, moving to rm -rf / Larry McVoy
2017-04-25  0:44       ` Dan Cross
2017-04-25 14:02       ` Clem Cole
2017-04-25 14:08         ` Larry McVoy
2017-04-25 14:12           ` Álvaro Jurado
2017-04-25 14:29             ` arnold
2017-04-25 14:31               ` Álvaro Jurado
2017-04-25 16:28                 ` Pete Turnbull
2017-04-27 23:44                   ` Steve Johnson
2017-04-27 23:54                     ` Ron Natalie
2017-04-28  3:04                     ` Toby Thain
2017-04-28  5:19                       ` arnold
     [not found]                     ` <mailman.198.1493337336.3780.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-04-28 14:48                       ` John Floren [this message]
2017-04-25 14:18           ` Clem Cole
2017-04-25 15:28             ` Dan Cross
2017-04-25 17:56               ` Bakul Shah
2017-04-25 14:19         ` Corey Lindsly
2017-04-25  0:06     ` [TUHS] There is turmoil in Linux-land - When did rm first avoid going upwards? Ron Natalie
2017-04-25  0:18       ` Kurt H Maier
2017-04-25  0:22         ` ron minnich
2017-04-25  0:24           ` Kurt H Maier
2017-04-25  0:26             ` ron minnich
     [not found] <mailman.805.1493129956.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-04-25 15:17 ` [TUHS] was turmoil, moving to rm -rf / David

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