On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 23:02:27 -0500
Tom Neff <tneff@grassyhill.net> wrote:
> --On Tuesday, February 25, 2003 7:20 PM -0800 J C Lawrence
> <claw@kanga.nu> wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 22:06:16 -0500 Barry A Warsaw
>> <bwarsaw@python.org> wrote:
>> The difference is that those are your fault, not your software's
>> fault.
> That is, as they say, a distinction without a difference. A missed
> legitimate email has no way of knowing whether it was missed as the
> result of software miscalibration or a tired eye on the 1AM Inbox.
True, objectively, but there is a significant subjective difference. In
one way I had the opportunity to see the mail, and didn't, and the other
way something hid it from me without my explicit per-message consent.
Think like a control freak...
--
J C Lawrence
---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
claw@kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh?
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
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