Re: using the right tool for the job!

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, July 19, 2001 at 01:17:10 (-0400), Lenny Foner wrote: ]
> Subject: using the right tool for the job!
>
> To say I doubt this so-called explanation it putting it mildly.
> I think you just didn't think through the implications of your
> actions, and are trying to backpedal now that someone's called
> you on it.  And I don't really care to hear yet another excuse
> about how you're so much cleverer than anyone else in doing this.

Oh, I'm not back-pedalling!  Quite the opposite!  I thought through my
actions very carefully and proceeded with very deliberate purpose!  I'd
do it all again (though maybe with about half the content -- two parts
would proabably have been suffient to get the point across with
sufficient irony; I just couldn't be bothered to pre-test it to see how
many parts it would be broken down into by my MUA).

I think you're just mad because you haven't a clue what my message was
all about....  don't be such a sore loser!

> And judging from the number of private messages I've received thanking
> me for calling you on this, I'm willing to bet that quite a bit of the
> list just didn't get your so-called irony, either.

I've no doubt!  ;-)

Oddly I've only received complaints (well, two complaints total,
including yours) from people running mailers which can't seem to decode
a set of very standard MIME messages....

> I got 3 parts with -no- indication in the body of (a) sequence
> numbers, (b) what order they should be placed in, or (c) MIME headers
> or separators of any sort.

Perhaps you should try finding a better MUA (or at least read the MIME
standard again and try to understand why you're looking very lame here...).

> As a result, I simply deleted all four pieces immediately.

Good for you -- sorry you can't get my little joke in its entirety.
Too bad you didn't delete your reply before you sent it too!  ;-)
E-mail me privately if you really do want to see what it was all about....

I still think it's about the funniest thing I've seen in months!  ;-)

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                                                        Greg A. Woods

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