The ongoing struggle

I realise that being on so many LUG and similar lists means I’m setting myself up for this but seeing the same conversation play out 10 times already is really doing my head in!

$ cd ~/Maildir
$ find . -type f | xargs grep -il ‘http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/softwarepatents’
./lug-hampshire/cur/1167746700.27551_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-hampshire/cur/1167748676.30387_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./debian-uk/cur/1167842646.25530_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-aberdeen/cur/1167904508.25092_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-aberdeen/cur/1167878764.2444_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-aberdeen/cur/1167873078.30123_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-gl/cur/1167917038.6388_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-gl/cur/1167919940.10510_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-gl/cur/1167918956.9559_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-surrey/cur/1167838262.19494_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-surrey/cur/1167837614.17607_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-sb/cur/1167906342.26657_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-sussex/cur/1167845280.28760_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-sussex/cur/1167827746.4426_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-sussex/cur/1167914202.4414_0.bitfolk.com:2,RS
./lug-sussex/cur/1167827668.4349_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-sussex/cur/1167828364.4997_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-master/cur/1167906018.26248_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./cur/1167748049.28558_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./cur/1167815237.20322_0.bitfolk.com:2,S

Pity the petition reads like it was written by a frothing […]