Point taken. But really, when one has to prepare an answer based on virtually NO information, it's tough to be real 'polite'. The re-phrasing you wrote is only with benefit of the list having dragged _some few_ details out of the OP.
In fact, at this point we all know he's probably going about it the wrong way, but everyone's being too polite to actually tell him that. Or maybe just turned off by his attitude. He asked for it. On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:50 PM, John DeCarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Tony B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Sorry, but I'm seeing this all the time these days. > > > Tony, > > Your normal answer to people is to tell them that they are doing something > wrong, they should do something different. > > I agree that there are times where people think they have to do A, when B > would serve their purposes better. > > But you could try to be more polite. Something like: > > I understand there are difficulties with putting that many pictures on a CD > for a DVD player. You may have very good reasons for doing so (you didn't > say), but my experience has been that putting fewer per CD, to allow people > to focus on just a few at a time would be a better approach most of the > time. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
