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Re: Mailing lists, CC, followup-to, netiquette and all the rest [was: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer]



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On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:37:40PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:

[...]

> > I owe you a $BEVERAGE of your choice (whithin reasonable bounds ;-) -- so
> > if you run into me in one of the usual conferences, go ahead!
> 
> Thank you!  I accept.  Fortunately for you, and sadly for me, I'm not allowed 
> by my doctors to drink Chateau d'Yquem, so I shall have to toast you in fizzy 
> mineral water.

Wouh. Bad doctors, bad. In my case it's the bankers. No Yquem for us :-(

> > Believe me or not -- it was never my intention to troll. 
> 
> I do believe you!  Though how on earth you managed to sit through what we were 
> saying, and especially what I was saying off list, without checking your 
> headers or settings, does somewhat bemuse me. :-/  
> 
> The trouble is, I know what I mean to type, so that is what I see.  Presumably 
> you knew what your settings were supposed to be, so that is what you saw.

Something like that, yes. Perhaps the root of most stubbornness.

> > Hanlon's razor [...]

> The older I get, the truer I see that that is.
> 
> I apologise for misspelling your name.  That is something I try to be 
> meticulous about, but I had never till now noticed the accent.  Though I had 
> noticed that you do not use an initial capital.

No worries. I moved a couple of times across Europe and my spelling changed
accordingly. I don't consider it a part of my personality :-)

regards
- -- tomás
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