<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lkcl@lkcl.net" target="_blank">lkcl@lkcl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Bill Kontos <<a href="mailto:vkontogpls@gmail.com">vkontogpls@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Indeed. I'm from the slack generation,<br>
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</span> ah so you've read their terms and conditions, then?  and seen these<br>
news articles:<br>
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 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/<wbr>technology/2017/may/07/the-<wbr>great-british-brexit-robbery-<wbr>hijacked-democracy</a><br>
 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/<wbr>politics/2017/feb/26/robert-<wbr>mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-<wbr>steve-bannon-donald-trump-<wbr>nigel-farage</a><br>
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> not too used to mailing lists. I<br>
> didn't realize I was breaking the flow.<br></span></blockquote><div>Yup. It's still hilarious when I trap people into chatting with slackbot for half an hour before they realize it's a bot because I have programmed it very carefully exactly for this job and not for being informative. Anyway by slack I mean modern chat rooms in general. I use whatever everyone else that I need to work with knows how to use and there is nothing I can do about that. Unfortunately I'm working on a daily basis with people who can't figure out by themselves how to add a new power point slide, let alone understand what the crap is going on with the world. Most of them are smart but don't understand shit about technology. There is very little I can do about educating most of my surroundings, but I do try my best.</div></div></div></div>