You seem ... angry and hostile. I'm sorry to have aggravated you. I hope you
feel better soon!

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <
[email protected] <shmuel%[email protected]>> wrote:

> In <[email protected]>, on
> 08/04/2010
>    at 11:50 AM, zMan <[email protected]> said:
>
> >Ah. I actually was paying attention,
>
> Had you been paying attention you would have noticed that the text I
> quoted in <[email protected]> terminated in
>
>     Or is Linux not technically a "flavor of Unix"?
>
> >PaulG asked
>
> More than one question.
>
> >it never occurred to me that this was referring to certification
>
> Despite his question quoted above.
>
> >I assumed it was responding to his question
>
> It was. You ignored his second question, even though it was the one
> immediately preceeding my response.
>
> >Are there really efforts to certify Linux as UNIX?
>
> No, for the reason already given.
>
> >Different mail clients, different readability;
>
> Most mail clients have cut&paste.
>
> >posting style isn't the issue.
>
> You seem to have felt that it was enough of an issue to respond to my
> complaint.
>
> >Note that the original NOT-top-posting didn't magically make it
> >clear what was being said.
>
> Note that nobody claimed that it was magic. It made it clear what
> response referred to what text, at least to those who paid attention.
>
> --
>     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
>     ISO position; see 
> <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html<http://patriot.net/%7Eshmuel/resume/brief.html>
> >
> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
> (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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