Re: Reiser4 status: benchmarked vs. V3 (and ext3)

[Manuel Krause <manuelkrause@netscape.net>]

On 07/27/03 17:04, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 27 July 2003 08:45, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> 
>>>[reiser@namesys.com]
>>>
>>>Nikita, how about phrasing this as:
>>>
>>>   `Dear and esteemed potential Reiser4 user, I apologize that we
>>>put a tarball on our website and let it get so obsolete, thereby
>>>wasting your time.  I am deleting it now, and will soon put a new
>>>one up.  In the meantime, can you use bitkeeper if that is
>>>convenient for you?  Here is the URL with the instructions for
>>>doing that.....'
>>>
>>>It is the usual American business english used in such cases.;-)
>>
>>Standard American puke inducing pretentious florid business
>>language if you want to be completely accurate.  8)
> 
> 
> Huh?  I thought Hans was being facetious, or was practicing his  
> standup comedy.  I can see something like that coming out of a far 
> western oriental type when dealing with an american that isn't really 
> understanding his accent, but here in the states, after we've 
> explained it once in plain english, the next exchange will more than 
> likely go the other way, possibly even making it to the 'hey 
> dumbf*ck' stage on about the 4th reply.

Can you, please, make the last two sentences more readable for me, a 
"middle european type", in 'first' stage plain english?

Please, make your dialogues clear and clean for international usage! 
You're not "here in the states" when posting to an international list.

  Manuel.

> 
> And I do object, albeit somewhat tongue-in-cheek, to applying that 
> particular label/broad brush to all americans since I am one of those 
> creatures.
>