Yahoo mail bug (was Re: Agnostic (non-theological))

[Mark Mandel]

Recently Yahoo mail has developed a serious bug: when a user replies to a
message, retaining the original message as quoted material, all of that
quoted material
is
formatted
one
word
per
line.
See Jeff's reply, below Scott's original header.

This is the third mailing list I have seen it on. I haven't been able to
find any way to complain to Yahoo about it (file a bug report). But maybe if
the keepers of a lot of mailing lists and representatives of organizations
wrote to them it would get their attention. Hopefully?

m a m

On Feb 4, 2008 11:19 PM, Jeff Prucher <jprucher at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "Agnostic" in a non-theological sense has been used in the software world
> for at least a few years (from personal experience, anyway -- I haven't
> tried to do a deep search on this). In my understanding of the term, if a
> program is hardware agnostic, it should be able to run without regard to the
> hardware it's being run on; i.e, the software "doesn't know" what the
> hardware is. A Google search on "agnostic program" yields a slew of relevant
> results.
>
> Jeff Prucher
>
> Editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction
> http://www.jeffprucher.com
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Scot LaFaive <scotlafaive at GMAIL.COM>
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Sent: Monday, February 4, 2008 7:04:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Agnostic (non-theological)
>
>
> ----------------------
> Information
> from
> the
> mail
> header
> -----------------------
> Sender:
>
>
>
> American
> Dialect
> Society
> <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:
>
>
>
> Scot
> LaFaive
> <scotlafaive at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:
>
>
> Re:
> Agnostic
> (non-theological)
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Attributing
> the
> neutral
> characteristic
> Switzerland
> to
> someone
> does
> seem
> more
> readily
> available
> within
> my
> own
> lexicon,
> but
> I've
> never
> considered
> using
> "agnostic"
> in
> non-theological
> ways.
>
> Scot
>
> On
> Feb
> 4,
> 2008
> 8:51
> PM,
> David
> Donnell
> <David.Donnell at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
> >
> ----------------------
> Information
> from
> the
> mail
> header
> >
> -----------------------
> >
> Sender:
>
>
>
> American
> Dialect
> Society
> <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> >
> Poster:
>
>
>
> David
> Donnell
> <David.Donnell at EARTHLINK.NET>
> >
> Subject:
>
>
> Re:
> Agnostic
> (non-theological)
> >
> >
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> Similarly,
> I
> recently
> heard
> a
> twentysomething
> South
> African
> woman
> (my
> >
> South
> Af
> wife's
> niece)
> use
> the
> expression
> "I'm
> Switzerland"...
> >
> meaning,
> mas
> o
> menos,
> 'I'm
> agnostic'
> on
> a
> >
> certain
> issue.
> >
> >
> I
> had
> never
> heard
> that
> one
> before...
> But
> apparently
> it's
> well-known
> >
> (according
> to
> the
> experts
> at
> Google
> University,
> at
> least).
> >
> >
> DD
> >
> Missourian
> @
> NYC
> >
> >
> >----------------------
> Information
> from
> the
> mail
> header
> >
> >-----------------------
> >
> >Sender:
>
>
>
> American
> Dialect
> Society
> <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> >
> >Poster:
>
>
>
> Scot
> LaFaive
> <scotlafaive at GMAIL.COM>
> >
> >Subject:
>
>
> Agnostic
> (non-theological)
> >
> >
>
> >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> >Today
> on
> "All
> Things
> Considered"
> (NPR),
> in
> response
> to
> Robert
> Siegel
> >
> saying
> >
> >he
> was
> a
> New
> York
> Giants
> fan,
> Michele
> Norris
> said
> she
> was
> "agnostic
> in
> >
> this
> >
> >case,"
> i.e.
> not
> claiming
> allegiance
> to
> either
> the
> Giants
> or
> the
> Patriots.
> >
> >
> >
> >Scot
> >
> >
> >
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