You can unsubscribe yourself:<br><a href="http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/linux-aus">http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/linux-aus</a><br><br>Peace,<br>Silvia.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Michael Lanagan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mickandjane@gmail.com">mickandjane@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Stop sending me your annoying messages. I am out of linux.<br>
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On 8/25/09, Michael Lanagan <<a href="mailto:mickandjane@gmail.com">mickandjane@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Delete me from your email list. Your emails are nothing but spam.<br>
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> On 8/25/09, Andrew Cowie <<a href="mailto:andrew@operationaldynamics.com">andrew@operationaldynamics.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 15:21 +1000, Michael Still wrote:<br>
>>> Sure. I already said I was settling on CD-R as a reasonable alternative<br>
>>> to my actual everyone-should-download-it-themselves stance.<br>
>><br>
>> I suppose the other factor [besides bandwidth & availability, which<br>
>> admittedly is pretty good if you're talking about the streets of, say,<br>
>> Melbourne] is that "here, boot this" is a lot more palatable than "go to<br>
>> this URL, download .iso and burn a CD of it, then boot it" (especially<br>
>> if one's experience of burning CDs is, at best, copying someone else's<br>
>> music CDs).<br>
>><br>
>> But other than "here, this is bootable", I must admit I'm not that in to<br>
>> [the cost of producing and then] handing out CDs. I tend to think that<br>
>> the number of people who are going to realize what booting means (as<br>
>> opposed to "put this in your drive and install the software you find<br>
>> there!") is low. Perhaps I'm wrong, but we've all been there, done that,<br>
>> you know?<br>
>><br>
>> Heh. What we really need is "got your laptop? Great! Here, just plug<br>
>> $this cable into mine, and ZAAAAAAAP now you're running Linux. Isn't<br>
>> that great? We told you the GPL was viral."<br>
>><br>
>> :)<br>
>><br>
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>> Sydney<br>
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