Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:47:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:47:34 -0500 Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.81]:10715 "EHLO mailout03.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:47:28 -0500 Date: 27 Dec 2001 13:18:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <8FeKheImw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <20011221205711.GA32465@weta.f00f.org> Subject: Re: Configure.help editorial policy X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh8 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: <20011221153136.G15926@redhat.com> <20011221141847.E15926@redhat.com> <20011221201033.GA32368@weta.f00f.org> <20011221153136.G15926@redhat.com> <20011221205711.GA32465@weta.f00f.org> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cw@f00f.org (Chris Wedgwood) wrote on 22.12.01 in <20011221205711.GA32465@weta.f00f.org>: > Standards exist to make peoples lives easier, the fact the hard drive > and memory vendors currently don't use these phrases right now doesn't > make the standard wrong --- this world is full of clue-less marketing > people and nothing will change this. Oh, it can be changed. Just the way car advertising has been changed to use kW. (Well, it has over here.) And the way monitor size advertising is in the process of being changed to use SI units, not US ones. Fair advertising laws can be rather effective. MfG Kai - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/