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Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> As I recall, your statement was phrased as a question, something like
> "how can you think you are qualified when you don't know Ada". That
> implies both that he _isn't_ qualified, and that he doesn't know what
> _qualified_ means in the first place. Both messages will simply be
> rejected; he will assume you are just a crank, since you don't know
> him personally.

Actually, it was a statement about myself, along the lines of "I wonder 
if someone who only knows C is qualified."