From: esa.peuha@helsinki.fi
stanley@a.shell.peak.org (John Stanley) writes:
> In article <86pk6vbvfrr.fsf@sirppi.helsinki.fi>,
> Esa A E Peuha wrote:
> >stanley@a.shell.peak.org (John Stanley) writes:
> >> >> Yes. You were providing reasons why something WOULD work. In essence,
> >> >> "you can solve the problem of X-No-Archive by ..."
> >No, I was saying that there is no problem at all.
>
> If there is no problem, then it would work.
Which is exactly what I was saying. Let me quote it here for you (from
<86p65771tpg.fsf@sirppi.helsinki.fi>):
: Second, even if for some reason
: only Google searches were allowed, you and other users of X-No-Archive
: wouldn't be excluded (searching for "arromdee rahul.net" finds over
: twelve thousand matches, many of them by people quoting your posts).
> >That is different from giving solutions.
>
> If you were the one who was saying "look for quoted material in
> Google", then you were giving a solution to the problem of X-No-Archive.
That's not what I wrote. Why didn't you just read what I did write
instead of trying to build a straw man?
> >Can't you see the difference, or are you just
> >too subborn to admit that you made an assumption?
>
> Since I didn't assume anything,
Yes, you did. You assumed I wrote something I didn't.
> I need not admit I made one, nor that it was wrong.
You did and it was, whether or not you admit it.
> What's your problem?
Right now my problem is that you argued about my words without bothering
to check what they were.
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Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/
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