Bob Wilson escribi=F3:
> Carlos,
>
> > If you some day want to unsubscribe from this list you DON'T HAVE TO
> > SEND a message with the <<"unsubscribe me" without quotes>>, YOU HAVE=
TO
> > GO TO THE PAGE WHERE YOU SUBSCRIBED and go to the manage subscription
> > section, and unsubscribe yourself FROM THERE.
>
> Actually, there is no "manage subscription" section. There is, however,=
A
> division about the middle of the page entitled:
Only notice that I didn't write quotes around manage subscription, that m=
eans
I don't say that is its name, I say that is the intention of the section,
whatever its name actually is.
I have just see at it and now I give you its name, I admit that having no=
t
given it since first time is an error by me, it is called "Dev-cpp-users
Subscribers", which has a first section for the administrator, with two e=
dit
fields, and below it the section for the subscribers for manage their
subscription, where they can unsubscribe, with one edit field and a butto=
n
saying "Edit options". Perhaps this makes someone think, when they see th=
e
first part, "oh!, it's only for admin, not for subscribers", despite the =
name
of the section, before noticing there is the second part for subscribers.
It seems that people has the custom of read the first and, if there is no
sections in the text which seems to start something different, or the fir=
st
one or two sections don't start something different, to consider that
everything which follows is the same thing, and they don't read that. Tha=
t's a
bad habit which must be abandoned.
Tiny guide for reading (this phrase has no second sense, eh? if some of y=
ou
can think I am intending to say something offensive or not with this, for=
get
that, I don't say anything):
Watch the calls to footnotes (a fail I usually found when someone rea=
ds my
texts (exams, letters...), as they are not books, usually forget that the
footnotes has not to be exclusive of books).
The quotes are not a simple decoration, they must be used and conside=
red,
and its use or not use is completely meaningful.
The language has many capabilities for expresion, subtleties and sayi=
ng
many, many things with short phrases, and those capabilities must be used=
and
considered, but either you must not abuse supposing those capabilities,
sometimes it can seem that the phrase uses them, but it is not that way, =
it's
just a coincidence.
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