On Wednesday 25 February 2009, Aldo Foot wrote: >On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Rahul Sundaram ><sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ><snip> > >>>> Since when being formal and polite is ridiculous. You may want to >>>> consider cultural diversity before replying with what could be construed >>>> as offensive comments. >>> >>> I have no problem with being polite. I just think that the language was >>> a bit excessive. >> >> I understand it looks odd to you but it is a cultural difference >> primarily. >> >> Rahul > >The cultural difference is already shown by the way the OP addresses >the intended audience: "Respected Sir/Madam". And he got hammered >in return because of the lack of understanding of how things work in >his world. >The world is not the same outside our borders. There are many countries >were the resources are not as readily available as they are for us. > >~af I would also interject here that the "Respected Sir/Madam" bit is a plus point for spam as its used the most often as the greeting in a phishing or 419 message. Some of those are so plainly so that they get drug-n-dropped into my spam folder, to be used as training for sa-learn -spam that I run daily with cron. I have to admit I was reaching for the mouse when the rest of the message finally registered. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact... -- Wm. Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
