Hereby, I am retracting the forward I made from comp.risks
about IE4 and proprietry font smoothing.
Any other thoughts I have about MS remain (and I will try keep them to
a minimum).
To paraphrase comp.risks, the risk is that the data you receive
via a newsgroup can often turn out to be inaccurate, and then is
propagated (I call it "persistence of information") after it is deemed
that the information is inaccurate, or incorrect.
I humbly retract the forward I made, hoping you all still like my
posts in future anyway ;)
Following is a retraction by the original submitter of the risks
article himself, with his own explanation.
rachel
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:32:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com>
Subject: Re: IE4, Netscape, and font anti-aliasing (RISKS-19.41)
I have been deluged with e-mail since my article about the anti-aliasing of
fonts was published in the last issue of RISKS. Unfortunately, it was
distributed through an oversight; I had sent mail to the moderator several
days before RISKS "went to press", asking him not to publish the article.
This came about because further investigation on my part had indicated that
the problem seemed to lie with individual fonts not being anti-aliased in
any application, rather than there being a consistent problem with
anti-aliasing in Netscape alone.
It is already well-known that cancelling a Usenet article is no indication
that it will not be seen by a large number of people. The RISK illustrated
here is, I suppose, that even with a responsive moderator at the helm,
taking the step of asking a human not to publish an article does not
guarantee that it will not be distributed.
[My apologies for missing the request to cancel the message.
I had been away for the annual Baltimore security conference and for a
variety of reasons had gone 16 days without an issue. Because I had not
been able to check the RISKS mailbox for two weeks, the backlog included
many hundreds of would-be contributions (plus a massive number of bounces
from the previous issue). I culled out a few that seemed most interesting
without even beginning to go through the mailbox. In the future, if you
wish to withdraw a submission, please CC my personal mailbox, with a
sensible and relevant subject line, because I am massively deleting
apparent spams sight unseen (despite ongoing filtering). PGN]
-- Rachel Polanskis Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia grove@zeta.org.au http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/grove.html r.polanskis@nepean.uws.edu.au http://www.nepean.uws.edu.au/ccd/ "Yow! Am I having fun yet?!" - John Howard^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Zippy the Pinhead