Re: [spoon-discuss] Fwd: State of the Nomic (Nomicron)

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 06:19  PM, bd wrote:

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> On Thursday 01 May 2003 05:44 pm, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> > On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 09:08  PM, bd wrote:
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> > > On Wednesday 30 April 2003 09:05 pm, Baron von Skippy wrote:
> > > > > > > My fellow players, I urge you all to abstain from responding to
> > > > > > > BvS'
> > > > > > > shameless attacks.  They do nothing to promote the intellectual
> > > > > > > integrity of Nomicron.  With any luck, we will soon no longer be
> > > > > > > subject to his behavior.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -Ha. We shall see. Yes, indeed. We shall see.-
> > > > >
> > > > > Stop it. Now they're scaring me and you're scaring me.
> > > > >
> > > > > To those inclined to take things on other mailing lists out of
> > > > > context,
> > > > > the above was a joke, as I assume was what BvS said. To those who 
> > > > > do
> > > > > not
> > > > > need such things pointed out to them and who think humor is better
> > > > > without little
> > > > > sarcasm markers, take it up with quarksbar9.
> > > >
> > > > -Hmm, I sort of meant that as a joke. There's no way for, say, B
> > > > Nomic to
> > > > mass-join and overthrow the impeachment, so I'm looking into ways to
> > > > get
> > > > around it by rejoining or something under a different alias. The 
> > > > only
> > > > problem is that if I do so, I'll have to scream in pain from biting 
> > > > my
> > > > tongue enough not to get re-impeached...-
> > > >
> > > > -By the way, if someone could find a way to remove this pragraph and
> > > > let
> > > > Nomicron see the rest of this message, that would be great.-
> > >
> > > BvS, please stop associating this with B Nomic. We don't need your
> > > vendetta
> > > interfering with politics.
> > > - --
> > > bd
> > > This message was written with vi!  (not that anyone in the world 
> > > cares)
> > >         -- seen on an old message from an anon.penet.fi address
> >
> > Why would anyone use vi for email?
>
> If it's set as your EDITOR and you use mutt...

Why would anyone use vi as their EDITOR? Emacs is practically the same 
thing, except with all the rest of your applications strapped on for 
the ride.

Personally, I do all my serious editing in Bbedit, but maybe that's 
just me.

--
Wonko

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