Stan Hoeppner:
> On 5/15/2013 7:21 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > Viktor Dukhovni:
> >> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 06:37:14PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> >>
> >>> You're making incorrect assumptions about the usefulness of software
> >>> based solely on revision numbers, of which you apparently have little or
> >>> no understanding. You must be a very wealthy man, as you most certainly
> >>> buy a new car on Jan 1 of each year, as your current car must be "out of
> >>> date" at that point, i.e. 2012 vs 2013.
> >>
> >> [ Editorial comment. ]
> >>
> >> With Reindl off the list, in part at Stan's suggestion, Stan should
> >> try to not pick up too much of the slack...
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Keep it friendly, Stan!
>
> Bah, you're both New Yorkers so you surely must be plenty familiar with
> sarcasm. Ok, Wietse lives a little farther up state and spends all of
Stan, Viktor and I were looking from the perspective of the receiver,
i.e. the person whose question you replied to. The odds are good
that their cultural background differs from yours. In fact, the far
majority of people do not have English as their primary language.
One well-known limitation of email is that it is single-modal. The
receiver does not get any hints from voice, face expression or body
language that a response is sarcastic or not.
So, keep it friendly, and if you must add sarcasm, make it plenty
redundantly clear. Recall that a lot of nuance/innuendo/jokes will
not come across as most people are not native English speakers.
Wietse
