on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:11:03PM -0700, Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:10:27PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
<...>
> > Thanks to poor design of some PC-based mail agents, one will
> > occasionally see the entire quoted message after the response, like
> > this
> > response to message
> > > entire message
> >
> > 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?
$ dict deprecate
From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
deprecate
v 1: express strong disapproval of; deplore
2: belittle; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's
efforts" [syn: {depreciate}]
Roughly a synonym for "discouraged" as used in technical contexts.
Another dictionary gives "express disaproval for" (Oxford Encyclopedic).
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