Re: Back-references and USEAGE

From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2004 - 04:22:34 CDT


In <HyKtD6.7vw@clerew.man.ac.uk> "Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:

>I have received the following from Dirk Nimmich which, for some reason, he
>did not post to this list. However, it seems to make the position of
>"Ant: " and its variants quite clear.

A further message from Dirk Nimmich, who seems to be having problems
posting to this list.

From: Dirk Nimmich <nimmich@muenster.de>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 20:37:43 +0200
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Subject: Re: Back-references and USEAGE
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Charles Lindsey wrote:
> I have received the following from Dirk Nimmich which, for some
> reason, he did not post to this list.

The reason is that it wasn't intended for the public. I definitely
don't have the time to discuss things on the list; it takes me ages
to compose a message in English, and more than once I misinterpreted
things or was misinterpreted.

> However, it seems to make the position of "Ant: " and its variants
> quite clear.

Only when talking about de.*.

[AW, Ant, Antw, Antwort]
> For the record, none of those variants of "Ant: " was present in the
> sample I checked.

No wonder:

> >if you post in de.* with the "wrong" prefix, you'll most certainly
> >get notified about that and flamed if you don't change it.

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