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The existing comments are already largely meaningless, so I'll add another meta comment: Is the use of "versus" in the headline correct in English? There isn't

by iquant 11y ago

The existing comments are already largely meaningless, so I'll add another meta comment: Is the use of "versus" in the headline correct in English? There isn't anything adversarial going on here, it is just his email policy. In other places "versus" even seems to be used as a synonym of "and".

gaur 11y ago
> There isn't anything adversarial going on here On the contrary, this passage sounds quite hostile: > If I run across such a message that was misaddressed --- I mean, if the message asks a question instead of reporting an error --- I try not to get angry. I used to just throw all such sheets in the wastebasket. But now I save them for scratch paper, so that I can print test material for The Art of Computer Programming on the blank sides.