Dan Upton wrote: > On Feb 7, 2008 8:59 PM, ajaksu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Feb 7, 10:05 pm, "Blubaugh, David A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I do not understand why people such as yourself cannot construct >>> anything but insults and complaints. >> I can help with that. People asked politely a few days ago. Didn't you >> see it? It happens because you're not following basic etiquette and >> common practice for online communication. That makes your messages >> annoying and unpleasant, so people complain and insult in return. >> Things like USING CAPS AND LOTS OF PUNCTUATION SUCkS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >> IT MAKES READING HARDER!!!!!!!!!!! LIKE HELL!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!1!!1!!!!! >> one!!!!! >> SEE?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? >> ?????????????????????????????????????????? >> ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? >> ??????????????????? >> ??????????????????? YOU DO, >> RIGHT???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? >> ????????????????????????????????????????????? >> ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? >> ???????????????? >> ?????????????????????????????????NO?????????????????????? > > I don't know, I'm inclined to agree with him. Repeatedly replying to > bash his use of grammar or punctuation is unnecessary. Replying to > the list to mock repeatedly is doubly unnecessary. If nothing else, > there comes a point where you should say "look, we tried to help him > with his mailing list ethics, but it's just not working" and LEAVE IT > ALONE. > > And speaking of annoyances, changing the subject again and again is > kind of annoying, too. At least this one was changing the subject > line to legitimately a different topic, unlike Steve's "I changed the > topic because it 'hurt my eyes' to look at that many consecutive > question marks." > Hey, all *I* did was remove superfluous punctuation. I left all the other text in the title alone. I believe I then left the thread alone too, having no way to constructively help David with his technical issues. I thought that was a legitimate change of subject line.
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