de.bug composed on 2019-11-20 18:22 (UTC+0100):
William Morder wrote:
Anyway, for the sake of others in the TDE group, if you would like to converse sometimes by private email or chat or what-not, I wouldn't mind. But we shouldn't do it here.
Yes, much appreciated on a technical mailing list. Trimming one's replies would also be in order.
It's especially rude to full quote a long OT diatribe. As interesting as Gene's life history might be to some, the list archive really didn't need to be bloated by multiple copies of it.