From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: My fanac
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:35:24 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:31 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: My fanac

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
> To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:39 PM
> Subject: [WSFA] Re: My fanac
>
> > Oops.  I just wrote:
> >
> > > This misfeature has caused multi-million dollar losses, for instance
> > > when £5,000,000 was turned into £5,000,000, which was then taken to
> > > mean 35 million pounds sterling rather than 5 million.
> >
> > But I had forgotten that I had set up this list to turn £ back into
> > the proper £, precisely to prevent such errors.  I just took that
> > patch out, so that I can send this.  After sending this, I'll put it
> > back in, and add another patch that turns ¡ into ¡.
> >
> > Also, I forgot to point out that Michael Walsh's reply which quoted
> > Ted White's ¡ turned it into yet another ¡, making him sound silly,
> > since he was describing how *not* to type ¡.
> >
> > This could denegerate into an Abbott and Costello routine.
>
> Indeed.  I went back and reread his post; normally I skip over previously
> quoted stuff so I missed the fact that he was back to "¡" in quoting my
> use of "¡".   I note he says his GroupWise program is for "Windows &
Macs."
> I think that explains it all.

Well, your patch made mincemeat out of my attempt to render Michael's " = A
1 " (we'll see if spaces preserve it).

--Ted White