From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar@algonet.se)
Date: Sat Jun 08 2002 - 15:46:57 CDT
John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes:
> Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net):
> > The latter is wrong, since news articles might be
> > local to an organization in which 192.168.0.1 was a legitimate internal
> > address.
>
> And as soon as it hits the outside world, it is "munged" and unreplyable.
Not necessarily. The articles makes it through another firewall, and
on the inside of that domain there is indeed a "joe" at 192.168.0.1.
> That does NOT say "if it cannot determine that the entities are the same",
> it says "if that entity is different". I do not know why you have not
> grasped the difference between the two statements, and I am at a loss as
> to what words to use to get you to understand.
All this reasoning is based on the assumption that "entity" and "person"
are complete synonyms. It is well-known from previous discussions that
you have this idea about the English language. It should also be well-
known to you from those discussion that no one else, neither foreign
nor native speakers of English, agree with you on that point.
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se