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From: ylee@csl.dl.nec.com (Ying-Da Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Idempotence of S3
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.155405.29205@csl.dl.nec.com>
Date: 19 Apr 91 15:54:05 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.213322.18417@pa.dec.com> <1991Apr16.223723.25275@csl.dl.nec.com> <1991Apr19.075822.17462@pa.dec.com>
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In article <1991Apr19.075822.17462@pa.dec.com> vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul Vixie) writes:
>
>I'm sure I answered everything I saw reason to answer.

In plainer words:  You haven't the foggiest idea how to answer
any of my questions.

>  Read over your
>questions and see if you can understand why their tone precluded any
>need for a reply.

Oh we are talking about 'tone' now, are we?  Let's see, the harshest
words I have used prior to this posting were:

  It bothers me to see bold assertion that
  'S3 is supposed to be idempotent' without supporting evidence.

Those are hardly the match of Paul's refined rhetorics, such as this
piece of gem: 

    No.  It is configuration.  Like TECO, you can do Towers of Hanoi in
    sendmail.cf if you are patient enough.  But there are better languages
    if programming is your goal, and the tool you are misusing will suck
    the blood of every maintainer who follows you.

How delightful!  How dare I disagree with such an exalted expert
as Paul Vixie!  Obviously a supreme offense in 'misusing' the tool,
hereby convicted with no need of supporting evidences.  And don't
miss the poetry of 'suck the blood' part either.

Listen, Paul:  Everybody makes mistakes sometimes.  I made one earlier,
Neil pointed it out and I said Yup, Neil is abosultely right.

What is the big deal?  And who is Paul Vixie and where did he acquire
this Papal Infallibility?  I have been trying to say you were wrong
without ridiculing you or your opinions, but you obviously don't
know that there's a difference.  Well, you do now.

>  (These are my last public words on this thread; if
>you want to know more, send me e-mail.)

Good, you are too old to go on nya-nya-nya-ing in public.  If you are
a masochist looking for a fix, we can do it in private e-mail.

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