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From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
To: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Dedication
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:36:32 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15izVg-0008HC-00@bowl.fysh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BA601CD.A4B3A348@yahoo.co.uk> from Oliver Kiddle at "Sep 17, 2001 02:59:41 pm"

Oliver Kiddle wrote:
>Many books include a dedication at their start

Books get dedicated to particular individuals closely known to the author,
not to huge groups of strangers.

>                                                     Sport is as
>unrelated to politics yet there are events cancelled and Ferraris
>driving around yesterday in plain red and a black nose.

People are taking this "mark of respect" thing too far.  Wasn't a
continent-wide three minutes silence enough?  The sporting effects are
uncalled for.

Despite my expressed opinion on the idea of a dedication, if we do decide
to do an "all developers" dedication then I don't object to being included
in that.

-zefram


  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-17 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-16 20:41 Dedication Bart Schaefer
2001-09-17  6:09 ` Dedication Borsenkow Andrej
2001-09-17  9:11   ` Dedication Peter Stephenson
2001-09-17 10:25     ` Dedication Adam Spiers
2001-09-17 13:14 ` Dedication Zefram
2001-09-17 13:59   ` Dedication Oliver Kiddle
2001-09-17 14:36     ` Zefram [this message]
2001-09-17 15:17     ` Dedication Clint Adams
2001-09-17 15:28       ` Dedication Fei Chen
2001-09-17 15:46         ` Dedication Peter Stephenson
2001-09-16 23:53 Dedication Wolfgang Hukriede

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