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Re: Installing RH7.1 on VMware from the CD



On Thu, Apr 19, 2001, Dinar, Avishay wrote about "Installing RH7.1 on VMware from the CD":
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You probably didn't put in that text deliberately - it appears something
your company requires you to send on every message...

But I have a request from people with such "legal" .signatures: please try
as hard as possible to keep those insidious things from your public
postings. I get the hives whenever I see one[1]. Maybe it has something to do
with the fact that my company also wants me to use such a .sig :)
Anyway, any message you send to a mailing list WILL be reviewed,
retransmitted, disseminated and made other uses of (perhaps even to spam
you ;)). To suggest otherwise is an insult to everyone's inteligence.

[1] If I remember correctly, it was Rebenu Gershom around the year 1000
who declared it forbidden to read other people's mail without permission.
There's no need to say that on every email as that is the implied norm,
in both written mail and email, as well as any other sort of private message
(carrier pigeon, telegraph, etc.). Just as you don't need to put up a large
sign on your house saying "thou shalt not steal" - it is not legal to steal
from a house even if it doesn't carry such a sign. Moreover, even if your
house does carry such a sign (or your email carries that paragraph) it
doesn't prevent criminals or enenmies from doing just the opposite, if
given the opportunity.
On the other hand, if you post your message on a public forum, be it an
email mailing list, a pashkevil in me'a-she'arim, yelling it in Hyde Park,
or a (rather silly) display of semaphores in public, you cannot expect
your message to be kept private - even if you add to it "Please don't
tell anybody what I've just told you".


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