On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 20:43, Mark A Mandel wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, someone wrote: > > #> or running Windows. > # > > Huh???? > > What is this about, please? > > When you wrote this, you knew what you were replying to, but there's no > way for anyone else to tell short of going back through the thread, > which he may have deleted most of already. There's usually a broad range > of acceptability between quoting too much and quoting too little, but > this is definitely too little. Actually, he had an empty reply and just quoted to words. The original message was by Philip Hart. Here's what he Philip wrote: > Ok, I was trying to preserve some sort of people/non-people language > distinction - one doesn't criticize one's computer, one reboots it or > downloads a new RPM or tells it to kill some annoying process. It doesn't > have a moral failure, the hard drive fails or it's badly configured or > running Windows. I think computers will be susceptible to mental illness > but to me that means that "mental illness" doesn't mean what people think > (what people say they "think" - oh, crap, foreget it). Oh, and it wasn't that hard to figure out what Julie was quoting due to having a mail client that understands threads and the In-Reply-To: mail header :) Jag