On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 15:12 -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:06:43 -0600
> Stuart Jansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > It doesn't come more authoritative than the creator of Postfix.
> > 
> > http://irbs.net/internet/postfix/0211/0802.html
> 
> Right.
> 
> * A 2002 email authoritatively documents software running in 2011?
> 
> * An email is more authoritative than an experiment designed to see how
>   the software actually works?
> 
> * An email is more authoritative than the source code?
> 
> * And, as Corey correctly points out, the email in question doesn't say
>   what you seem to think it says.
> 
> This is the informal fallacy called the argument from authority, which
> (as Aquinas pointed out [for those amenable to the argument from
> authority]) is the weakest of them all.

You seem to be laboring under the impression that my reading
comprehension is abysmally low.


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