Dave, et al -- This thread has developed a life of its own and will never die. Thus I can truthfully say that I'm not trying to keep it alive :-) ...and then David Yitzchak Cohen said... % % On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:51:55AM -0500, David T-G wrote: % % > ...and then David Yitzchak Cohen said... % > % ... % > % What's DFSG??? % > % > UTFW! How tough is it to look it up for yourself? % % FWIW - google utfw produces nothing useful, and neither does google % acronym utfw. You're right; it's very secondary to STFW. Perhaps switched with UTFL :-) % % > google acronym dfsg % > [mailing list postings ... nothing looks interesting in the 1st page] % > google dfsg % > [aha! first hit] % > % > Total time some twelve seconds. Go ahead, beat my time. % % That's not the point. Anybody else who read the thread not knowing much % about Debian would encounter the same problem, forcing him to spend the But it *is* the point. It's completely irrelevant to mutt discussion, so it needs no explanation. You shouldn't have asked it here in the first place. % twelve seconds just locating the information, plus a few minutes to read % through the verbose version on Debian's web. It's much easier if you I didn't read the verbose version. It took me about twelve seconds to find for what DFSG stands, which was all that was asked. If you want more information, you can read it all on your own. % spend your own twelve seconds either (a) giving a footnoted link, or (b) % giving a tiny explanation (like Christoph did), saving a bunch of people Ah, but I didn't know what it was, so in exactly your position I went and looked, and it was ridiculously easy. *You* should have spent your own twelve seconds looking instead of asking. % twelve seconds each, rather than saving yourself twelve seconds at the % expense of everybody else. (Not everybody uses Debian, ya know. . .) That's a relief; I was worried that I was the nobody who didn't! ;-) % % - Dave HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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