Well that's the problem, isn't it? Karsten (and yourself, variously) isn't really "putting up" with it, now is he?
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: >On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:11:03PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:10:27PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: >> > but this practice is strongly deprecated. >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> Hell does that mean? >> >> Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary has this to say... >> >> dep-re-cate 1. to express mild or regretful disapproval of 2. >> DEPRECIATE >> >> I "strongly mildly dissapprove" of that quoting convention! Huh? > >"deprecate" is a common technical term (hang out at the IETF for a >while). When a standard is trached, it is marked "deprecated" so >people know that though they might have to put up with it from others, >they shouldn't implement or use it themselves. > >Perhaps Karsten should have used "discouraged" rather than deprecated, >but close enough. > > -- * You are not expected to understand this. --comment from Unix system 6 source, credited to Lions and Johnson Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who: finger me for GPG key