[EM] Re: I did reply to Craig

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

Eric had said:

>Quite frankly, neither if you can lay claim to the moral high ground
>here and I for one am getting quite tired of this inane flame war.
>You both are doing nothing but repeating the same arguments over and
>over and over again.
>
>STOP IT.

Markus replied:

When I wrote on 15 Dec 2003 that Mike Ossipoff and Russ Paielli
mistakenly called a different algorithm "Floyd algorithm" and that
with the correct Floyd algorithm the strengths of the strongest
paths can be calculated in a runtime of O(N^3), where N is the
number of candidates, then this wasn't an attack.

I reply:

No one has said that your first statement of that was an attack. Only that 
it becomes tiresome after the hundredth repetition, as Eric has pointed out.

I believe that it was on 18 December 2003 (as recorded by this list's own 
archive at this domain)that I replied to acknowledge that fact and that the 
Floyd algorithm is different from our algorithm, and said that I'd ask Russ 
to delete the "Floyd algorithm" name from the website.
If not on that day, then on a day close to that day. The question is, after 
I'd acknowledged that, why has Markus insisted on continuing to argue that 
settled and concluded issue for the past month or more?

Markus continued:

Actually, I had told Mike Ossipoff several times during the last
years that he mistakenly called a different algorithm "Floyd
algorithm" and that with the correct Floyd algorithm the strengths
of the strongest paths can be calculated in a runtime of O(N^3).

I reply:

I don't know, but I'll take your word for that, though it has no relevance 
now.

Markus continued:

I do not believe that it would have been possible to discuss the
Floyd algorithm without stressing that that algorithm that is
mistakenly called "Floyd algorithm" at the website of Mike
Ossipoff and Russ Paielli is not the Floyd algorithm.

I reply:

...and no one has criticized you for your _initial_ statement about that. 
You were criticized only after you kept repeating it after I'd said that I'd 
ask Russ to delete the name from the website.

As Eric has said today, people are really tired of your repeating it.


Mike Ossipoff






















Markus Schulze

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