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Re: limits of the generic

• To: Norman Walsh <ndw@n...>
• Subject: Re: limits of the generic
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:30:29 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <87adlzxr4u.fsf@n...>

Norm Walsh writes:
> For example, I find this statement
> 
> | I guess you're too deeply involved to see the W3C's continuous
> | pile-on as a problem.  I count your shrug as yet another sign that
> | some people don't care enough to fix it.
> 
> quite insulting.

And I found your <shrug/> contemptuous.  Perhaps markup isn't an
adequate tool for expressing emotions, but perhaps its very inadequacy
makes us speak more strongly.  I'm not convinced that's a bad thing, as
you've now made clear what you actually meant.


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Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA
http://simonstl.com may be my URI
http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether

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