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. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
