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Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed

From The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed
Date 2018-01-17 05:20 +0100
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On 2018-01-16 at 21:17, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 16/01/18 12:15 PM, davidson@freevolt.org wrote:
> 
>> Is there a natural law or something, that every email message sent
>> must contain at least one distracting error that is totally beside the
>> point?
>>
>> Anyways, over and out.
> 
> "Over" means "My transmission is finished; I expect a reply."
> "Out" means "My transmission is finished; I do not expect a reply."
> 
> One more distracting error... :-)

I usually think of "Over and out" as being effectively equivalent to
"You can respond if you want to, but I'm not going to be listening".

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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scriptable way to list packages that are not installed Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com> - 2018-01-14 05:00 +0100
  Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-01-14 07:40 +0100
    Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-01-14 07:50 +0100
      Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com> - 2018-01-14 21:20 +0100
        Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2018-01-14 23:10 +0100
        Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-01-16 20:40 +0100
          Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed davidson@freevolt.org - 2018-01-16 21:00 +0100
            Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-01-17 03:20 +0100
              Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-01-17 05:20 +0100
                Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-01-17 05:50 +0100
              Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-01-17 20:40 +0100
                Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-01-17 21:10 +0100
                Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-01-18 07:20 +0100
          Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-01-16 22:40 +0100
  Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2018-01-14 11:40 +0100
  Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-01-14 14:00 +0100
  Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed Bernd Gruber <begruber@mnet-online.de> - 2018-01-14 16:00 +0100

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