Re: [Marxism] Hello?

["Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Phil writes: 

"Is this working? I'm getting new messages but mine isn't showing up...

"Did my first post get me banned?"

Phil,

Unfortunately, you're using Gmail. 

God, who created Gmail, thinks people don't want their own messages back
from email lists. He understands getting your own messages back is wrong.
And since they're God and you're not, they secretly, without as much as a
by-your-leave, suppress your own messages when they come back from the list.

Moreover, this is a largely undocumented feature of Gmail. If you dig deep
enough, you'll find it documented. A friend at the Googleplex tells me it's
been a constant complain and feedback they get back on Gmail, and that they
make this a user-configurable setting has been suggested more times than
aleph null. But unfortunately at the top of Gmail development is an
arrogant, intractable, obstinate jackass (or so my sources tell me) who
refuses to countenance any change.

You'll notice similar arrogance in other Google products, like Chrome. It
will open with the nine sites it thinks you visit most frequently. There is
no way to change that. Even when the URL starts 404'ing or spitting up a DNS
error, there it will sit each time you open a tab with that feature, at
least if your router or service provider or DNS service provides it own
customized error message on a web page rather than sending the original
error code all the way back to the browser. Why not let the user decide that
this is a site they'd rather NOT have popping up whenever a new tab is
opened? The question isn't just absurd, it is blasphemous. It suggests that
God can make mistakes. Can't have that.

Joaquín



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