On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 23:07 -0400, Andrew wrote:
Good evening Rob,
Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote:
>
> I think it is good to quote the *relevant* part of the posting you are
> replying to in a reply:
>
> - it makes a reply easier to understand: you can put your reply lines
> exactly under the right line of the original text if necessary.
>
Rather than making it easier to understand, the quote only provides immediate
context. Sometimes that makes things easier to understand, but sometimes not.
This, however, is not a forum for a discussion of epistemology.
Well you made me look that one up - not a word an engineer uses a lot...
According to Principia Cybernetica - first Google entry:
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies knowledge. It
attempts to answer the basic question: what distinguishes true
(adequate) knowledge from false (inadequate) knowledge?
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I doubt however, that an appeal to
etiquette could be legitimately sustained when one considers that the use of
humor while correcting another is indistinguishable from sarcasm.
Been on both ends of that one.
Finally, let me apologize for committing one of the greatest sins
against mailing list
etiquette, i.e., hijacking the thread. --
Think that had already happened at least once before you jumped in, but
guess I just compounded the sin. ;^)
Thanks for the linguistic refresher. These hijacked threads can
occasionally yield some enlightenment.
Phil