On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 22:53, David Walluck wrote:
> Alastair Scott wrote:
> 
> >ii. (Various) '<something> is available on mandrake<...>.com' ->
> >'<something> is available from mandrake<...>.com';
> >  
> >
> 
> 'on' is fine in this context (at least in my American english). 
> Personally, I might even use 'at'. I think 'from' is wrong, mandrake.com 
> isn't a person, he can't really give anything to you, so you can't get 
> anything 'from' him.
> 
> I agree with the rest.

Huh? This makes no sense...I can go and get something from a drawer, or
from a table, from a website is grammatically the same. Having said
that, I agree with your first point - I don't see a problem with "is
available on website.com", either.
-- 
adamw


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