From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-05-28T03:50:39+09:00
Subject: Re: documentation for ruby?

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Mark Wilden wrote:
|
| I've already read what's been quoted. Since I read a -lot- of email, I
| generally read it no more than a day ago (I can't let things pile up). I
| don't need to read it again. All I need to know is what, generally, the
| guy's talking about. Most of the time, I can get that from what he's
| saying (plus my capacity to remember past events). If not, the subject
| line is usually enough. There is no need to recapitulate the entire
| conversation.

That's good for you. But 6 billion people aren't you. Do you apply your
standards to everybody? Assumptions that work for you do not work for
everybody.

A crude example: Do you speak Chinese, where everybody else speaks
German, while insisting that the language doesn't matter, it's all words
anyway?

Do you shop for groceries, naked?

|> Just top posting might (*might*) be acceptable in a business/one-on-one
|> conversation, but is considered rude otherwise
|
| Begging the question.

Not at all: http://fallacyfiles.org/qbanalog.html

It is not an analogy, but juxtaposing two different styles. ;)

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Phillip Gawlowski
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