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View Poll Results: What is your favorite editor?
vi ( or a clone thereof ) 27 77.14%
emacs 3 8.57%
notepad.exe 3 8.57%
Other visual editor (In a GUI environment) 2 5.71%
Other 0 0%
ed / ex 0 0%
edlin.exe 0 0%
pico 0 0%
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Old 02-04-2002
With regard to the sidebar on MSWORD and the news article, here is my reply, as requested:

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It is not important what I think, what is important is what the people whom I communicate (and work with) think and use. I must communicate in formats that they use in their business operations. For most large companies, that means: MSWORD, ASCII, ASCII/HTML, POWERPOINT, EXCEL, PDF, FLASH. Most of these formats are vendor proprietary and they all are 'de facto' standards in the business world. I don't dictate to people how to commuicate, I accept and create communications in their format because the goal is to [I] communicate[I]. I don't think it is wise to allow personal bias to stand in the way of communications.
I'm not a supporter of (IT) religious wars and jihads either and don't find any userfulness in them. Bashing products and companies has little value. If two people want to communicate using the "foo" format, then that is their choice, freedom and right. Cooperation is based on mutual gain. Obviously applications like MSWORD, PPT, and XLS have a broad base of users who like to use them.... they do have a choice, many choices.
 
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rmnews

RMNEWS(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 RMNEWS(8)

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NAME

       rmnews - expunge and remove news articles

SYNOPSIS

       rmnews

DESCRIPTION

       Rmnews  reads  article  data  from the standard input.  It then expunges and removes the listed articles.  Rmnews is designed to be used by
       InterNetNews to remove canceled, superseded, and expired news articles.

       The input is processed as an INN expirerm file listing or an INN cancel stream written as a ``WC'' entry in the	newsfeeds(5)  file.   This
       data  consists  of  lines  of text, each containing a list of relative article pathnames, with a single space between entries.  If a listed
       file is contained in an IMAP news mailbox, it is expunged out of that mailbox.  In any case, each listed file is unlinked.

       Rmnews reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file.  The optional newsprefix option specifies a prefix to be prepended to
       newsgroup names to make the corresponding IMAP mailbox names.  The required partition-news option specifies the pathname prefix to the IMAP
       news mailboxes.	The value of partition-news concatenated with the dots-to-slashes-converted value of newsprefix must be  the  pathname	of
       the news spool directory.

FILES

       /etc/imapd.conf

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