-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:15:07 +0000, Jack Byers wrote:
> Hal Burgiss responded to another thread: > > >Mutt + procmail is light years ahead of this stuff. Especially, when > >you consider vim can be used as the editor. > > > I am reasonably sure most members of this list, > and almost surely Hal himself, > really know that "light year" is a technical term: > > specifically it is a measure of _distance_ ; > and said another way, it most certainly is not a measure of _time_ > which is the sense it was used in the above quote. Funny, because I took above sentence in terms of distance. > It's no worse than saying "miles ahead of" but that is badjunk use too. To be miles ahead of someone is a common phrase in many languages. I don't see anything wrong with it. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+diia0iMVcrivHFQRAtt6AJ4tpGLY1hUaxIF2x5fhxD/NeHmJWgCfexq7 hho0EiF4K2x1JtqegtD58jI= =3a0Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
