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Re: [OM] Apologies to the Group

Subject: Re: [OM] Apologies to the Group
From: "Giles" <cnocbui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 21:56:49 +8
John

The 'dross' refered to has nothing whatever to do with what you say 
in your posts.  That is usually the absolute opposite of dross ie 
valuable information.

I believe the reference was to your leaving the entire contents of 
posts you are responding to intact, without first judiciously pruning 
irrelevant portions - such as the mailing list footer I have 
purposely left at the end of this message.  When I send this message 
to the list the list server software will add another copy of the 
footer information to the end of my message so when it reaches you 
and everyone else on the list it will now have two copies of the 
footer information ie dross.

Giles


> What is "dross" and pardon me ;-)
> 
> John
> 
> Ian M. Stewart wrote:
> 
> > At 19:43 16/02/98 -0500, Denton Taylor wrote:
> > <big snip>
> > >
> > >The JH relationship to the Oly list should be a model on which all
> > >commercial transactions are based on...
> > >
> > Seconded, although John could learn to cut some of the dross in his posts.
> 
> 
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