On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:01:32AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2004-03-11 15:33:10 +0000 Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> > wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:50:14AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > >>On 2004-03-11 10:48:54 +0000 Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> > >>wrote: > >>>[...] Avoiding making individuals the focus of > >>>a thread is both more obnoxious, and easier to avoid without > >>>causing > >>>problems. > >>Is it really significantly more obnoxious? > >I certainly find Thomas' thread much more obnoxious than your use of > >the word "your" to single out the mail you were replying to. > I was avoiding making individuals the focus of the thread, which I > thought was what was described as more obnoxious. > English. Lovely language. Enough ambiguities to fuel a flame spanning > continents.
Sorry, that wasn't ambiguous, so much as just plain wrong. "Making individuals the focus of a thread is both more obnoxious and easier to avoid" was how it should've read. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we could. http://conf.linux.org.au/ -- Jan 12-17, 2004
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