From: hugybear@gmx.net   
      
   On 23.11.25 21:33, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   > Jörg Lorenz  wrote:   
   >> On 23.11.25 17:23, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   >>> Jörg Lorenz  wrote:   
   >>>> On 23.11.25 16:00, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   >>>>>      In the snipped part, I pointed to Internet Standards such as e-mail,   
   >>>>> web, etc.. I take it you don't care about such matters? :-(   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Instant messengers are all proprietary.   
   >>>> The only independent and global standard is e-mail and hopefully with   
   >>>> OpenPGP-encryption.   
   >>>   
   >>>     Well, as I mentioned, there is an Internet Standard for IM (XMPP), but   
   >>> it's indeed a niche.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>      "Anglo-Saxons"!?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If you prefer: English-speaking folks.   
   >>>   
   >>>     That's better, because to be Anglo-Saxon, you have to live in Britain.   
   >>>   
   >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons   
   >>>   
   >>> "In modern times, the term "Anglo-Saxons" is used by scholars to refer   
   >>>    collectively to the Old English speaking groups in Britain."   
   >>   
   >> In modern times it describes all native English-Speakers around the   
   >> globe with the historic roots in the United Kingdom: Canadians,   
   >> US-Americans, South Africans, Australians etc.   
   >   
   >    Whatever. The point is, I'm not in that category and (AFAIK) neither   
   > are you.   
      
   Where did I claim that?   
   What I said is that this category of people have the tendency to   
   dramatise tiny little issues as we can see in this group and in this thread.   
      
   And *you* have the tendency to know *everything* better.   
      
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