Dragaera

while cursing amazon re the non-release of _TLoCB_

Gaertk at aol.com Gaertk at aol.com
Wed Aug 6 14:49:21 PDT 2003

Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> writes:

>On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, David Silberstein wrote:
>
>> [Aside: Could you please edit your "To:" & "Cc:" such that 
>> your replies only go to the list (or to me, but not both, 
>> since I only need one copy)?  Thanks.]
>
> Aside - since it's less work for the receiver to delete a 
> double email than for the sender edit the cc/to (under 
> pine, anyway), I don't care about receiving extras, but 
> will honor your request - do others care?

I find duplicates slightly annoying, but not too bad.  I 
wouldn't've commented on it had you not asked.  If anything,
I'd be more concerned about wasted bandwidth from cascades
being sent to a dozen people on the list in addition to the
list, which is why I always send replies only to the list
(has anyone even noticed that?).

Is it time for our annual reply-to flamewar? :)

>> sciences either.  They at least have *some* chemistry 
>> (petroleum refining), but we don't know how recent a 
>> development that is.
>
> I think "petroleum" is a mistranslation.

I believe Brust has explicitly stated that petroleum and a
few other things (swivel chairs, kerosine) were specifically
mentioned to indicate this isn't a medieval society.


--KG