Re: A new SMTP "3821"

On Sun, 2004-12-05, Frank Ellermann wrote:

> Bill McQuillan wrote:
 
>> Okay, I give up!

> That's the first case where my "DEnglish" forced somebody to 
> give up, <shame on="me" /> :-(

>> What do you mean by this abbreviation?

> "respectively",  Google found a link explaining why that's
> a bad idea:  <http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001173.php>

> Maybe I should try "or" in these cases, it's shorter ;-)  Bye.

Thanks for the explanation! I expected to slap my forehead and
say "I should have known that"!

But this is much more interesting. Thanks also for the
LanguageHat reference, I may spend a bit of time there.

-- 
Bill McQuillan <[email protected]>