Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

On 29 March 2011 12:47, Christoph Lohmann <20h_AT_r-36.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> pancake wrote:
>>
>> *Bruce Leidl (@bleidl <https://twitter.com/bleidl>)*
>> 26/03/11 19:41 <https://twitter.com/bleidl/status/51715324260782080>
>> Dude patiently tries to explain to #Archlinux
>> <http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#Archlinux> why no authentication for
>> packages is a huge problem. Ban hammer.
>> <http://bit.ly/hSZUR3>bit.ly/hSZUR3
>> <http://bit.ly/hSZUR3>
>
> I'm sorry to inform you, that the Twitter culture of temporary
> interesting short text highlights is seen as a disgrace of Inter-
> net culture. Please stop posting HTML emails, any kind of Twitter
> messages and replace your mobile phone with something sane. I am
> willing to take your iPhone into custody and never return it
> again.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Christoph Lohmann
>
>

While I agree HTML emails are terrible. While I feel link shorteners
are terrible. I think that the proper solution would be to provide a
link to the blog, and a source (if you must), since this is
information that the *nix community should know, and while this is the
improper distrobution platform, the proper one is not going to
authorize use by this information.

But yeah - email is text, keep it that way. Then ignore the vitriol.
Received on Tue Mar 29 2011 - 18:54:14 CEST