On 03/04/07, Ian Eiloart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --On 2 April 2007 20:03:19 +0100 Peter Bowyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> > >> /me wonders why nobody told me that. > > > > /me suggests you lose the attitude when asking for help. > > > > Peter > > > > Seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to ask. The answer is that the > "that" he refers to depends on context that wasn't supplied. > > "Attitude" would have been expressed by tone of voice. Clearly, that wasn't > supplied either. Here, plausible tones that you could have supplied as a > reader were "puzzlement" or "sarcasm". I think it's a shame that you opted > to hear "sarcasm". Some may argue that the writer should have done more to > express puzzlement, I suppose.
I made that determination based on accumulated evidence from earlier posts, where he described a behaviour of Exim that he had misunderstood as 'rediculous' (sic). Such an approach always gets my back up :-) No need to drag it out, though, as normal service has been resumed. /me writing 100 times "be more tolerant of posters" Bart Simpson-style Peter -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
