From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Buchs, Kevin" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: those funny non-ASCII characters Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 11:56:45 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ehq0bz0z.fsf@gnuvola.org> <87aa0ob8y3.fsf@gnuvola.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338483432 24379 80.91.229.3 (31 May 2012 16:57:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:57:12 +0000 (UTC) To: "Thien-Thi Nguyen" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 31 18:57:08 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sa8gI-0003yW-IA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2012 18:57:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38317 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sa8gI-0005XB-98 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2012 12:57:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40273) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sa8gC-0005Wq-CJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2012 12:56:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sa8g6-0003Bw-0A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2012 12:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail10.mayo.edu ([129.176.212.47]:21455) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sa8g5-0003AI-Sa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2012 12:56:49 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,693,1330927200"; d="scan'208";a="157955403" Original-Received: from roedlp005a.mayo.edu (HELO mail10.mayo.edu) ([129.176.158.0]) by ironport10-dlp.mayo.edu with ESMTP; 31 May 2012 11:56:47 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EAMKhx0+BsNQ1/2dsb2JhbABBA7QNgQeCGAEBAQMBMApECwIBCCIGGAYBVgEBBAESCId+BbAQiQSLJIIYgjtgA4hAjFiKe4R4gn6BQQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,693,1330927200"; d="scan'208";a="157955401" Original-Received: from mhro1a.mayo.edu ([129.176.212.53]) by ironport10.mayo.edu with ESMTP; 31 May 2012 11:56:47 -0500 Original-Received: from smtprelay.mayo.edu (smtprelay2.mayo.edu [192.168.48.11]) by mhro1a.mayo.edu with ESMTP id BT-MMP-3040790; Thu, 31 May 2012 11:56:46 -0500 Original-Received: from MACE.mayo.edu (mace.mayo.edu [129.176.215.134]) by smtprelay.mayo.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q4VGukYX014992; Thu, 31 May 2012 11:56:46 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message In-Reply-To: <87aa0ob8y3.fsf@gnuvola.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: those funny non-ASCII characters thread-index: Ac0/S/d9ymKOkt8CRbiSYJaADBqcEQAAUwtA X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 129.176.212.47 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85063 Archived-At: > I am simply ignorant of "water over the dam". > My mistake was not asking it directly: > What do you mean by "water over the dam"? Thien-Thi, No problem. It is an expression meaning, in general, that lots of events have come and gone, and are now passed. It is an analogy to the flowing of water over a dam in a river, in the sense that once water flows up over a dam, it is going downstream and has passed the reservoir behind the dam and presumably passed your field of view.=20 In this specific instance I was referring to a large number of messages having been posted to the email list by several people discussing a topic that Xah Lee brought up. So, the busy-ness of the list made me think that perhaps there were some people who were going to reply, but the number of messages coming from the list got to be so large that they just deleted them including my message or lost my message in inbox clutter.=20 I could have applied the analogy of "water over the dam" even further to say that: "though there were many messages posted on this list that are now water over the dam, I would like to bring my message back to allow it to float to the top again." Kevin Buchs | Senior Engineer | SPPDG | 507-538-5459 | buchs.kevin@mayo.edu Mayo Clinic | 200 First Street SW | Rochester, MN 55905 | http://www.mayo.edu/sppdg=20