- From: Etan Wexler <ewexler@stickdog.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:16:14 -0500
- To: Etan Wexler <ewexler@stickdog.com>
- CC: W3C Semantic-Web list <semantic-web@w3.org>
Etan Wexler wrote: > I wonder why Etan would assume the address of a public mailing list. > Consider this a solicitation for explanation. This was a ironic accident, Etan. I (which is to say, you, Etan) wrote to Reto Bachmann-Gmür to advise of a broken mailer, but as we now observe, I, too, had a broken mailer. My mailer provided a choice of originator addresses for use in composing the message to Reto. Unfortunately, my mailer silently failed to act on the selection of the usual and proper address, leaving in the “From” field the address of the W3C Semantic-Web list. It appears that Reto responded to the declared message author without scrutinizing the “From” field, which error is subject to understanding and forgiveness. The cascade of errors led to an abrupt broadcast message and then to this bizarre pseudo-dialog. If the episode at hand has anything to do with the Semantic Web, the lesson is that software should be robust. Software authors should expect that bugs, incompetence, chicanery, and outright malice will introduce falsehoods and tricky cases, even in the vaunted RDF graphs of the glorious future. Etan, if you have further questions, write to me (which is to say, to yourself). -- Etan Wexler.
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