reversal? "supported by"

[Dan Goncharoff]

This message would make sense in the context of opening a link in an e-mail
being read in Yahoo! Mail.

If the error occurs when opening Yahoo! Mail in a browser, I agree with
your reading.

A quick scan of Yahoo! Mail help pages confirmed your reading. Yahoo! Mail
thinks it supports browsers. We think browsers support Yahoo! Mail.

DanG


On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      reversal? "supported by"
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> An error message at Yahoo Mail advises that  "Temporary errors can be
> caused by browsers that are not supported by Yahoo! Mail. "
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> Shouldn't that be just the opposite: "that do not support...."?
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> If so, what the hell is going on with these things?  Some kind of weird
> national dyslexia thing?
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> JL
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