[nflug] RE: Copy of Red Hat 7.2

Wed Dec 7 12:27:09 EST 2005

I am now fixed as well no more html harassment ;)

Greg Neumann wrote:
> Oops! Add me to that list of uncultured, rude and ill-mannered luzers! I 
> thought I'd set up Thunderbird to do text only in this account. Probably 
> messed it up in the last upgrade, and, (sigh...) at work it's Windows. :-\
> Fixed it now. Good policy if we all switch to straight text, though.
> -Greg
> 
> David W. Aquilina wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:25:15PM -0800, ptgoodman wrote:
>>
>>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
>>> <html>
>>> <head>
>>>   <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" 
>>> http-equiv="Content-Type">
>>>   <title></title>
>>> </head>
>>> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
>>> Hi Ron,<br>
>>> <br>
>>> I have a set of the original Red Hat 7.<u>3</u> distribution CDs. If
>>> interested, it would only be a matter of getting them to you.<br>
>>> <br>
>>> It's not "End of Life". I'm curious as to why anyone would say that
>>> when they no doubt jumped on the bandwagon when it became available.
>>> But, being a Luddite, I've never seen the need to update daily or adopt
>>> the very newest HW or SW. Don't fix it if it ain't broke. OTOH, having
>>> more than 64 KB is more than just a luxury.<br>
>>> <br>
>>> ptg<br>
>>> <br>
>>
>>
>> HTML e-mail is horribly annoying. Did you really need to add a bunch 
>> of crud to underline a single character? Would _other_ notation not 
>> have sufficied?
>> And it's not a question of getting the latest and greatest versions of 
>> whatever package you may want. It's a matter of getting security 
>> updates to your existing packages. Linux is *not* invulnerable - when 
>> (not if) you get compromised, your system will be contributing just as 
>> much as a Windows system to the spam and other crap that's flooding 
>> the internet.
>> If the original poster would be so kind as to reply with his 
>> requirements for the system and the system's specifications, I'm sure 
>> someone on the list could suggest a distribution which is currently 
>> receiving security updates so the system doesn't become yet another 
>> festering pimple on the face of the internet...
> 
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