Re: Dejavu: ongoing anti xhtml stuff

On Tue, 13 May 2008, Dean Edridge wrote:
> 
> I'm really disappointed with you here Ian. I sent an email that was very 
> polite and friendly. I just wanted to know what had happened to the 
> issue I raised. I genuinely didn't realise that it has been put in a 
> list of things to do. You totally ignored me at the time when I brought 
> this up, so what was I to think. I didn't know what had happened. I 
> assumed you must have forgot or decided that it wasn't worth changing. 
> This was a simple error on my part as I did honestly not know how the 
> process worked Ian. I went out of my way to be friendly and polite in 
> that email but you've taken it personally it seems. I wasn't attacking 
> you or being nasty. I don't know what the process is with the 2000 or so 
> emails you have to deal with. I'm happy for you to inform me of how this 
> works and I'm happy to wait and have issues dealt with at the 
> appropriate time. I just didn't know and I knew that I didn't know 
> that's why I was joking with you in the email and being jovial.

My apologies if you took my last e-mail to be in any way my taking 
anything personally; I didn't mean it to sound nasty. I was just replying 
matter of factly.

For what it's worth you can see the progress of how much e-mail there is 
to reply to here:

   http://www.whatwg.org/issues/data.html

That, and many other useful links to feedback and so forth, are listed at 
the top of the spec:

   http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/


> I thought we had already been through this issue of sending other 
> peoples emails to the www-archive. You know it's not allowed. I'm really 
> surprised that this has happened Ian. I tried my best to be friendly 
> with you but you still thought it was necessary to remove the friendly 
> things that I had said and make it look like a nasty complaint, then 
> send it to the www-archive.

I have a standing policy of always cc'ing www-archive on e-mails of this 
nature that I send, so that I can point other people to my reply if they 
ask the same question.


> If you do not want me to contact you privately, then by all means let me 
> know and will only send comments to public lists.

I have no problem with you contacting me directly, but I'll probably 
always cc www-archive on the reply, without even thinking. I recommend 
cc'ing www-archive on e-mails you send me, that way there's no problem of 
only one side being cc'ed.

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Received on Tuesday, 13 May 2008 07:39:36 UTC