[Klug-general] Alan Turing Pardon Petition

[George Prowse]

J D Freeman wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:34:18PM +0100, George Prowse wrote:
>> So we can start discussing Edison because of electricity, Parkes because 
>> of plastic and Lilienfeld for the transistor? If you want that then I 
>> suggest starting a list called KCUG so you can discuss anything to do 
>> with computers.
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>> There has to be a line somewhere and it has to be just behind Linus 
>> Torvalds, Alan Cox and Richard Stallman or you might as well take the 
>> "Linux" out of the name of this mailing list.
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> Your right, we shouldn't allow any related topics.
> 
> So, remember, no more discussion of:
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> * Microsoft
> * computers that aren't running linux
> * unixs that aren't linux 
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> etc...

I have no problems with that, if I want to talk about Windows i'll go to 
a microsoft mailing list.
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> Lets face it, in reality topics like this come up quite rarely and
> ultimately, this thread has only got to the size it has because you had an
> issue with it. Had you said nothing, it would have probably got only a
> couple of replies. 

Actually they've been getting more and more frequent, hence the email.