In comp.os.linux.misc Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> wrote:
> In article <6nkugb.u9a.ln@news.it.uc3m.es>,
> Peter T. Breuer <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote:
>>In comp.os.linux.misc Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> wrote:
>>> In article <aiiugb.ao4.ln@news.it.uc3m.es>,
>>> Peter T. Breuer <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote:
>>>>In comp.os.linux.misc Joerg Schilling <js@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>>>> People know that I am the author and it would be impolite to repeat this fact.
>>>>
>>>>Are you or are you not? I don't see an admission!
>>
>>> If you can't see the implied admission in that sentence, you're just being
>>
>>I don't work on implications. Either he says so or he doesn't say so.

> What world do you live in? Why would anyone ever say "people know that I
> did X" and not deny it if they didn't actually do X? That would be

Why would anyone ever not say "I am the author of X"? It's a perfectly
simple sentence. Simpler by far than what we see above. If he doesn't
say so, I'd like to know why!

> nonsense. If they wanted to deny the claim they would say something like

His statement neither denies nor affirms it. It's simply evasive. A
straight yes or no is all that's required, and all that an honest man
would produce.

> "many people think/suspect/assume that I did X but I didn't." That's how

He doesn't want to deny the claim. He seems to want to avoid saying
anything definite. I don't know what psychological problem could
underly such evasiveness, but it looks pathological to me. I wouldn't
trust the shifty creep further than you could slide him.

> real people communicate, but you seem to be expecting some kind of robotic
> response.

I am expecting a simple yes or no, or some equally simple but more
elaborate statement on the lines of "yes I am the author of X".

Simple, no?

Peter