"Michael Ash" wrote in message
> In comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc Peter Olcott wrote:
>>>
>>> You *could*, but guess what, you didn't. And you won't in the future,
>>> either. Generally the same bunch of regulars read a large number of the
>>> messages. Obviously I read both. It's *much* better to acknowledge the
>>> previous thread and momentarily confuse the people who didn't read it (as
>>> if they'll be confused at all, they know what's what) than it is to ignore
>>> the previous thread and piss off everybody in the group.
>>
>> Why would anyone choose to be offended? With such a thing as this, it is only
>> a
>> purely arbitrary convention that has no ultimate basis in reasoning. I myself
>> choose to never be offended, unless the specific intend to offend is make
>> 100%
>> completely explicit. I often choose not to be offended in these cases either.
>> Why choose to be offended? Choosing to be offended reduces the quality of
>> one's
>> life.
>
> Let me see if I can put this in terms you'll understand, then.
>
> By asking an underspecified question, and by repeating your question
> without any acknowledgement of the previous try, you waste my time by
> forcing me to remember who you are and by forcing me to decypher your
> extremely badly worded question. Since I do this for free and for fun,
> this means you don't get help.
>
Yes, I guess that I did not do a very good job at phrasing my question, I was
too terse, and apparently even made a few errors. Whether or not I start a new
thread, sure seems moot to me. Perhaps it is that I am used to dealing with
hundreds of different respondents, and the continuity issues that you have
raised do not apply as much in the other much higher volume groups.
> However, I am trying to be a nice guy and tell you how you can avoid
> causing the volunteers who might help you for free to decide that you
> aren't worth their time. This doesn't seem to be working. Apparently you
> believe that you know more about how to use newsgroups than I do, despite
> the fact that I've been using them for a decade and you have apparently
> been using them for a week, as far as I can tell from your behavior.
>
> So here's where the offence comes in: if you don't like my advice, then
> you can go get bent, join the other jerks in my kill file, and find some
> other group to leech off of.
>
> --
> Michael Ash
> Rogue Amoeba Software
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