On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: >On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:34:05PM -0600, John Galt wrote: >> 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. >> >> Well that's the problem, isn't it? Karsten (and yourself, variously) >> isn't really "putting up" with it, now is he? > >Putting up with retarded behavior doesn't mean you are prohibited from >discouraging said behavior. > >> -- >> * 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 > >Since you're such a fan of jeopardy style quoting, why is your sig >always at the bottom? Seems hypocritical.
I think the sig said it all.... You really aren't expected to understand. >Good luck, > > -- * 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