reversal? "supported by"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Great. So what the hell is going on with these things?

JL

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> This message would make sense in the context of opening a link in an e-mail
> being read in Yahoo! Mail.
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> If the error occurs when opening Yahoo! Mail in a browser, I agree with
> your reading.
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> A quick scan of Yahoo! Mail help pages confirmed your reading. Yahoo! Mail
> thinks it supports browsers. We think browsers support Yahoo! Mail.
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> DanG
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> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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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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