Lydia Nickerson <lydy at demesne.com> writes: > At 11:35 AM 11/27/02 -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >books at bofh.com writes: > > > I also do not believe that DDB is not religious. I will offer > > > as inflamatory examples requests for discussions on the following > > > subjects by him: > > > > > > 1) List headers should have the list address set as reply-to > > > 2) Vi is better than Emacs > > > 3) Ksh is the best shell > > > 4) Sendmail is clearly superior to qmail > > > 5) HTML is necessary for effective email communications > > > ... > > > These are clearly religious issues. :) > > > >Not in the sense we're discussing. There are solid, real-world, > >observable, measurable, reasons for preferences among the things on > >those lists. > > Actually, what's going on is that you have certain immovable opinions > based on those observable, measurable facts, not quite the same thing. You do understand that that's a top-level nasty accusation in my world, right? Notice that, even in responding to the poke here in the list, I didn't actually claim that the evidence was overwhelming and only an idiot could disagree. > Speaking of religion which ought, at some time, to include sin and > leading one into temptation and all that, combined with DDB's firmly > held opinions: > > I've just discovered that my email client at work is not configured > the way I have it configured at home. i.e. I haven't been paying > attention. I've you've received an email from me on this thread, it > was intended to go to the list, not to be sent privately. You are > free to forward it to the list if you like, or not. If you want to > argue about it on-list, though, please do forward it, because I don't > have copies and am unlikely to remember what I said. Hmmm; I think I still have it, if so I'll forward it to the list. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info