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[Timothy Butler]

Chris, did the message bounce? I don't see it in my moderation list.

	-Tim

On Jul 12, 2008, at 7:53 AM, Chris Olson wrote:

> Tim,
>
> What's up with your Café list?  It seems to remove all formatting  
> from emails.  I posted a message in reply to Don's post last night  
> and that never appeared, I suspect because I don't use plain text  
> email and put a smile emoticon in my message.
>
> I realize that whenever more than one linux user gathers, we have  
> talk of "MickySoft", "the evil empire", "the dark side", and the  
> dark ages of 40 character wide Unix terminal computing are held up  
> as the epitome of all things.  I would imagine these people also  
> only have black and white TV's in their living room?
>
> I guess there's two kinds of Cafés;  the type where the clientele is  
> prim and proper and sits in their booth saying nothing much of  
> anything, sipping on their latte and eating crumpets, and they pay  
> the guest check with a credit card - pretty much totally boring.    
> Then there's the type like the Barron Farmers Union Cenex Truckstop  
> where the clientele is a boisterous, rowdy crowd that likes their  
> coffee strong and black, eats ham and eggs, and pays with cash.  I'm  
> from the Truckstop crowd - unfortunately your Café here doesn't  
> serve my type of food.
>
> I'll get TechTalk working again at some point, when I get a chance  
> to fix the corrupted MySQL database tables, and maybe I'll call it  
> the TruckStop instead.  But like always, at the TruckStop people  
> will be able to post pictures of their grandkids and vacations,  
> there are no rules, nothing is moderated, nothing is off-topic, and  
> it's never boring........
> --
> Chris
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