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.
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