[plug] [OT] fear of posting

Bret Busby bret at busby.net
Mon Sep 20 16:04:47 WST 2004


On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Russell Steicke wrote:

> 
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:54:58PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> > In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409201459190.23885-100000 at BBRH73.busby.net>
> > on Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 03:00:35PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law
> > > Whatever that URL points to, does not work with lynx.
> > Hmm...works in w3m.
> 
> Works in lynx for me, too.  Try this, Bret (quoted for the shell's
> command line):
> 
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin\'s_Law
> 
> 

Thank you for that.

I noticed that others cited the version of lynx that they are using. In 
trying the Help facility for this lynx, a version number was not 
displayed. However, it is lynx running on Red Hat 7.3, so the web site 
may not like versions this old (or, versions as old as this, may not 
like the web site :) ).

There is also a possibility where the cited Godwin's Law is in error, 
apart from the instances cited on that page, and that is where, as on 
some of the lists to which I subscribe, the list administrator posts a 
message saying "Hello. I am the list administrator, otherwise known as 
the list-nazi.", where the message refers to list rules. The message is 
not necessarily to curtail a discussion, but may be merely to state or 
restate, or introduce, or discuss, list rules to be applied by the 
particular list administrator.

-- 
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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