2009/8/28 Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)verizon.net>et>:
As the portion of your email making that caveat did
not appear until
after quoting another portion of Ting's message, suggesting that it
would be addressing some other aspect of the discussion, I missed that
you had hedged what seemed to be a pretty plain statement. Honestly,
considering the significance of this responsibility, I would have
expected the sentence to be qualified immediately since the point
negates so much of the basic assertion.
Meanwhile, there have been a lot of messages to read on this list
recently, and I've learned as part of list etiquette to trim replies to
the material you're responding to, as a courtesy to readers. I apologize
for overlooking the additional context as a result, but I had no
intention of misrepresenting you and I don't think it was particularly
stupid, immature, or malicious.
Apology accepted. I'll classify it as "careless" instead. It really is
important to read the whole of a message and not jump to conclusions
half way through. I don't expect people to stop reading half way
through so my emails will frequently not make sense if you do so.