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.


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