Roger Millin wrote:
> Oh dear, I guess I'm one of the main culprits here (Mea culpa). > That's a real shame because in the course of transferring stuff from > the laptop (that I also use for on-board communication <on topic>) > to the new PC I have discovered a really perplexing problem/query > regarding IE6 but I guess I'd better keep quiet about it. Shame, it > just might have affected someone else also, but I'd still really > like to know the answer so if anyone with the required expertise > would like to e-mail me privately, I'd be much obliged. I wonder if it's the same problem as I found? I'd say put your question it on the group anyway. > On this list you rarely know who will have the definitive answer to > any question (boating or otherwise) for which you require the > answer, so just how you are going to know who to e-mail privately? An excellent point. > PS I also rather like the pub analogy used in later replies. Not new. It goes back to the time of the Great Flame Wars of Dral and Maggot. > PPS I also thought that we'd agreed, *long ago*, that if off-topic > stuff was clearly marked as such in the subject line with OT that it > was allowable in *reasonable* quantities. Similarly with cross > posted e-mails marked with XP I agree with Roger's memory on those points. -- Mike Stevens narrowboat Felis Catus III web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk Defend the waterways. Visit the web site www.saveourwaterways.org.uk
