On the need to spell out the obvious

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 07:32:39PM -0000, John Levine wrote:
| >
| >  Can we add that statement to the ASRG web site?
| 
| Sure, although it seems so obvious that I'm a little concerned that
| there seem to be people who don't already grasp it.

I recently went and read NANAE's latest threads about Caller-ID and SPF.

I get the impression from reading these threads that if I were to post
on NANAE "hi, my name is meng and i think kittens are cute" I'd spark a
200 message thread to prove me wrong.

Along the way we would see arguments like

"but when i was 4 years old i got bitten by a puppy"

"are you talking about normal cat kittens or jaguar kittens?  because
jaguar kittens grow up into jaguars, which are dangerous animals and can
kill you; however, as long as you stay out of the amazon basin you
should be reasonably safe"

"mittens are great, they keep my hands warm when it's cold, but they
lack the flexibility of proper finger gloves"