I'm a 'tard - I don't know what a Subject line is (Was well, no subject)

[Bart Silverstrim]

On Oct 1, 2004, at 3:24 PM, Bill Moran wrote:

> Chris <racerx at makeworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Nicx wrote:
>>>    Hello Guy's!
>>>
>>>    Is there any emulator that i  can run win32 apllications on 
>>> freeBSD?
>>>    ... Nicx
>>>    ---- www.ebox.gr - Dwrea'n E-mail µe 15MB mailbox 
>>> www.hyperhosting.gr
>>>    Apokty%ste to diko' sa*s web site µe dw%ro to domain name!
>>
>> I would be sooo much nicer it 'tards would learn to use the subject 
>> line
>
> Those kind of comments are not welcome on this list.

Maybe he was having a bad day and took one too many irritations like 
that to heart; I sometimes don't bother replying to top posters anymore 
in my emails or to lists just because it's irritating to me to keep 
going through jumbled headers and sorting crap out to get an actual 
idea of what is going on in an email.  Eventually I just pop it into 
the bit bucket...if it's important, they'll email again with hopefully 
a new email that's clean and free of crap.

Same with people that use reply-to to post their new message 
topics...so it gets threaded under a different subject that has NOTHING 
to do with the actual topic at hand.  So they screw up the threading.

AAARGH

then again, I break the 72-character wrapping.  Other people are really 
miffed at that in this list.  I wish someone would fix the Unix mailers 
to see this properly, because I'm using Mail.app and it's stupid after 
being drilled so often not to hit "enter" periodically for word 
processing.  Mail.app does put in wrapping, but it's using a type of 
word wrapping that is configurable...something from qualcomm, I want to 
say?...where messages would be dynamically wrapped to be more readable 
on variable display sizes.  Something about messages showing up 
properly in email editors on PCs to small displays like those on PDA's 
and cellphones.  If the mailer interprets this properly, every 
quotation is properly indented regardless of the size of the window.  
So I irritate people in that regard.

When everyone who emails me stops top posting and screwing up the 
threading or doing anything else to irritate my wonderful online 
experience, I'll manually wrap lines at 72 characters.

Anyway, yeah, it was wrong to be so harsh...but maybe he had *some* 
justification in mind at the time.

> If you want to be rude to people, please don't associate yourself with
> FreeBSD when you do it.

Yeah...take it to an advocacy forum! :-)

> As to the OP's question, look at wine (http://www.winehq.com) ... 
> although
> I've never had much success with it, that's what it's supposed to do.

Try using vmware, or QEMU.  Or Plex86, or whatever they're calling that 
project now.  VM's tended to work much better for running Windows 
software than WINE has worked for me, but that's just my experience.