Spurious write permission error

[C E Macfarlane]

Please see below ...

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>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org]On
>     Behalf Of David Cantrell
>     Sent: 03 May 2016 17:12
>     To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
>     Subject: Re: Spurious write permission error
>
>
>     On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 03:55:48PM +0100, C E Macfarlane wrote:
>     > From: artisticforge . [mailto:artisticforge at gmail.com]
>     > > First a request. can you refrain from inserting your web page with
>     > > every post? it is annoying
>     > Tough shit.  It's my standard email sig, and I'm not
>     changing it just for you.
>
>     It is customary to put signatures at the end of messages, not the
>     beginning. I'm sure that if you put it at the end no-one would object.

... and ...

>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Roger Bell_West [mailto:roger at firedrake.org]
>     Sent: 03 May 2016 16:04
>     To: C E Macfarlane
>     Subject: Re: Spurious write permission error
>
>     On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 03:55:48PM +0100, C E Macfarlane wrote:
>     >Tough shit.  It's my standard email sig, and I'm not
>     changing it just for you.
>
>     No, a sig is something that goes at the _end_ of a message

The sig is put in automatically by Outlook.

>	and is
>     separated from it by "\n-- \n".

You're thinking of newsgroups, this is email.

>     No call for swearing just because someone calls you on your choice to
>     do something non-standard.

I consider it rude for someone to pick on such trivia as posting styles,
sigs, etc, just because that person is losing an argument, hence my
down-to-earth response.