Public service announcement [was: Re: [plug] [rant] 2.6 Kernels]

Bret Busby bret at busby.net
Wed Sep 1 18:03:29 WST 2004


On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, James Devenish wrote:

> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:34:03 +0800
> From: James Devenish <devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Public service announcement [was: Re: [plug] [rant] 2.6 Kernels]
> 
> Haven't send one of these e-mail in a while, despite noticing a lot of
> people on this list writing "your" when they actually mean "you're".
> I've been holding back from saying anything (I have not even sent Craig
> an off-list e-mail about his use of the word "gotten" :-P). In a similar
> vein:
> 
> In message <1093919695.12021.100.camel at cbbcbitl303c.murdoch.edu.au>
> on Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:34:55AM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > Its more "whats appropriate".  Databases have an overhead that means
> > that for relatively small sites its just not appropriate - and usually
> > kills flexibility ...
> 
> It's, it's.
> 

Ah, you missed the "whats" - should be "what's".

> In message <1094029840.12004.195.camel at cbbcbitl303c.murdoch.edu.au>
> on Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 05:10:40PM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > I think you need to restrict that to either a case by case or distro
> > (which distro are u talking about?) basis - 2.6.8 seems fine under
> > gentoo (i.e., its got some patches and fixes in it)
> 
> it's
> 

If you are concerned with the lack of apostohes, what about this "u" 
word? Have we switched to that crappy SMS misspelling, now?

:)

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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