Re: 99% OT: An attempt at debate reconciliation. [Was: Encrypting postponed messages]

2013-09-12 Thread Óscar Pereira
(For schedule reasons I was unable to reply earlier) Erik, It was never my intention to do anyone's thinking for them. At least knowing you interpreted my words that way explains your reaction (I would have reacted the same way). Perhaps that fault lies with me -- I am not a native English

99% OT: An attempt at debate reconciliation. [Was: Encrypting postponed messages]

2013-09-09 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 07.09.13 18:00, Óscar Pereira wrote: So now suppose (*my* scenario, not yours) that mutt used an external program to view emails, and, we were discussing adding the feature of viewing encrypted emails to mutt. By a reasoning *similar* to yours, i.e. reasoning in a way coherent to yours,

Re: 99% OT: An attempt at debate reconciliation. [Was: Encrypting postponed messages]

2013-09-09 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 10:39:09PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: If we can each just argue our own case, then the list can be spared a lot of noise. That's a grand idea (seriously), but this is isn't debate club. Most people have litte or no training in formal logic, and while if you have