Walt Mankowski on 25 Feb 2009 11:57:45 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] OT: cell tower near school


On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:07:09PM -0500, Art Alexion wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 February 2009 10:40:02 am Walt Mankowski wrote:
> > I don't know.  What is the point of asking about cell phone towers
> > (and referencing people in Britain) for a Philadelphia Linux Users
> > Group?  Surely there are better places to find out such information.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:02:10AM +0900, kamiza103@yahoo.co.jp wrote:
> > > I don't know if the towers run Linux.  What is the point of an OT thread
> > > if the topic were Linux on cell towers?  (I would definitely object to
> > > children being exposed to radio-active Linux kernels.)
> 
> Regarding concern over transmissions from cell towers from people habitually 
> holding handsets to their brains: as the song says, "Everybody wants to go to 
> heaven, but nobody wants to die."
> 
> Regarding this and other OT posts: Lets not consume more bandwidth grousing 
> about it than that used by the OT discussion itself.  Don't like OT posts, 
> marked as such, in kmail (a Linux MUA) ctrl+del, in Evolution (another Linux 
> MUA) ctrl+h, del, in thunderbird (a multi-platform MUA with a Linux version) 
> shift+ctrl+a, del.  I don't know the hot key combo that Apple Mail (not a 
> Linux MUA) app uses.

Alternatively, people could just stop making so many off-topic
posts...

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