Re: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released

[Brian Orpin <abuse@borpin.co.uk>]

On Sun, 06 May 2001 13:50:39 GMT, Emmanuel Briot <briot@gnat.com> wrote:

>[Posted on behalf of Robert Dewar]
>
>First, a general note, the direct posts you saw from me in this
>thread are not posts at all, but the results of some very strange
>cc mechanism in what were intended to be personal replies to David
>Botton.

Tricky this email stuff.  The messages clearly state that they are 'To'
the mail-news gateway that David obviously uses as well as David himself.

From David's posts
Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Cc: <dewar@gnat.com>
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Return-Path: <David@Botton.com>

So clearly if Robert had simply replied the reply to address is the
mail-news gateway at ada.eu.org.

Hardly some strange cc mechanism.

It just sounded to me like Robert was blaming David for his own
incompetence with an email client.

GIGO

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Brian Orpin    BAE SYSTEMS, Edinburgh
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