Re: Yahoo Eagle PCB user group

From: WayneL (nospam-mail_at_wlawson.com)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 15:48:55 GMT

Very good,
but I do think that...
1/ you think about things too much
2/ or/and you are a very cynical individual
3/ or/and you have probably not does thing for "free" before and probably
expect to get paid for everything at some time or another.
Add and delete the or/and to suit your taste.
Hay, we seemingly live in a free world (with exception to a few states).

Wayne

"Guy Macon" <_see.web.page_@_www.guymacon.com_> wrote in message
news:10tu2i1b0tsl64e@corp.supernews.com...
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?
>
> WayneL wrote:
>
> larwe@larwe.com wrote...
>>
>>> I'm very down on proprietary services that don't add
>>> VERY SIGNIFICANT functionality to open solutions.
>>
>>But is does not cost anything now. So while is does not
>>you are free to CHOOSE!
>
> That's what the heroin pushers say; the first few are free...
>
> That's what the owner of the patent on the .gif format said;
> you can use this format for free...
>
> That's what Wal-mart says to vendors; we will buy all that
> you can produce until we are over 95% of your business,
> then we will have a little chat about your prices...
>
> Yes. You are free to choose. Nobody here disputes that.
> The issue is whether you are choosing wisely.
>
> Choosing a web-based service with ads run by a big corporation
> instead of a speedy, reliable and crash-proof system run by
> nobody is *not* a wise decision.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The rest of this post is for WayneL only. The rest of
> you can skip to the next message if it bores you.
>
> WayneL, here are some references that will help you
> to improve the quality of your posts to newsgroups:
>
> "When thou enter a city, abide by its customs."
>
>
> Quoting Style in Newsgroup Postings
> http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ewijnands/nnq/nquote.html
>
> How do I quote correctly in usenet?
> http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html
>
> Common Mistakes in Usenet Postings and How to Avoid Them
> http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/mail-news-errors.html#quoting
>
> Bottom vs. top posting and quotation style on Usenet
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html
>
> Why bottom-posting is better than top-posting
> http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
>
> +What do you mean "my reply is upside-down"?
> http://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/quote.html
>
> Put an end to Outlook Express's messy quotes with this automated fix!
> http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
>
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