On 3/7/06, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > gb spam wrote: > > > Perhaps you should check the list - it was "debated" at length there > > with all pro-choice arguments dismissed, sometimes with valid points, > > but often without valid points. > > I do subscribe to it... what was the thread called? A quick search on > 'everything' in the last 30 days in Thunderbird showed lots of posts but > not the magic thread as I could recognize it. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-January/msg01136.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-February/msg01632.html Its cropped up in other threads too. > > >> because that at least has the > >> possibility of convincing the people responsible for the code. > > > > Sadly not, anti-choice wouldn't listen to pro-choice. Their minds > > were already made up, and the change was presented as a fait accompli. > > Ah well steady on, I could ask for a button that changes the installer > background colour and use the same generic "anti choice" complaint when > I was told where to stick my demand. Therefore it's not a useful > observation. Of course you would be told that, by design the request is frivalous and intended to try negate my point by extrapolating it to absurdity. Now, if you came up with a request that people have already been using for years, is popular, functional, non-cosmetic and will be missed by many people, then we could make the comparison. > Some day, > perhaps years from now, I likewise hope to convince someone about > something on that list, hell, any mailing list. Or Internet forum. Hm > in fact also living room. Perhaps we should all learn to take ourselves less seriously! Nice remark - it almost made me use that ugly abbreviation - LOL. No wait, damn, it did.
