I'd said:
>Take a look at my paragraph that you quoted above. It was >right in front of your face. I'd said I wasn't agreeing with >you _because I hadn't rechecked & printed-out the definition._ >Whether the probability that a given candidate X is elected can >only decrease when additional candidates are nominated doesn't >mean anything with respect to compliance with IIAC unless >that's what IIAC is about. Markus replied: Then instead of writing that you haven't checked the definition, why don't you check the definition? Or do you believe that already the fact that you haven't checked the definition has such an importance that you should tell it to everyone? I repy: As before, I direct your attention to the message to which you are replying. Right after the paragraph that you quoted, I said that someone could say that it's pointless to say that I don't agree with you because I don't have your definition, but that I said it to avoid any misleading implication that I agree with something whose accuracy I haven't checked. I can't believe that you're still posting about that "issue", but it wouldn't be the first time that you wasted archive space in that way. Markus continues: Does it really take so long for you to check the definition? I reply: That depends on how long "so long" is. I said that I wasn't agreeing with the statement, instead of returning to the archives to find your definition, because I didn't have much time on that occasion. Maybe you'll post yet again about this, to say that I should have waited till the next day, after I'd had time to check the definition. If it were a really important issue, I would have. As it was, I wasted only very little space with that one sentence that dislaimed agreement with the statement. How that part of my reply was dealt with didn't seem important, since it wasn't an important part of the reply. I'm answering that objection in advance in order to close this "issue" here. Markus, try to consider how these unnecessary messages look when they clutter the EM archives. Mike Ossipoff _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
