[121341] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SORBS on autopilot?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Fri Jan 15 11:52:40 2010
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:50:49 -0600
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: William Hamilton <bill@edisys.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4B50974E.3080308@edisys.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/15/2010 10:26 AM, William Hamilton wrote:
> On 15/01/2010 16:14, William Herrin wrote:
>>> Is it bad English? Is it not clear?
>> No, it is not clear.
>
> It's perfectly clear.
>
>>> Can anyone else give better wording
>>> that might result in less of an issue?
>>
>> "Please reply to this message to reopen your ticket and escalate your
>> case to a live human being."
>
> You:
>
> "Please reply to this message to reopen your ticket and escalate your
> case to a live human being."
>
> And now SORBS:
>
> "If you feel otherwise, please reply to this message
> to re-open your ticket."
>
> Try as I might I really can't see what is not clear here...
Standard English vs. British English vs. Northeast U.S. English, vs.
Geek vs. ...?
Second seems more logical to me (allowing for a moment that some thing
about this whole subject is "logical".
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