Posting went thru?

[John Macdonald]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:14:56AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Stewart C. Russell <scruss-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org>
> 
> |  strings evil.doc | fmt -s
> | 
> | If you can't get the sense of the document out of that, it probably wasn't
> | worth reading.
> 
> Unfortunately deleted text could show up without being distinguished.
> Could lead to much confusion.

While it can lead to confusion for the reader, it can be an
even worse problem for the sender, who thought that the deleted
text was really gone and didn't want it to be seen at all.

I seem to recall that Microsoft got badly embarassed by an
instance of this during their antitrust trial in the U.S. and
SCO was probably not intending to tell the world that their
lawsuit against Daimler-Chrysler was originally drafted to be
against (CitiBank? or BankOfAmerica?) and they changed targets
at the last minute.

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