"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
> Bob pleeeeeeeze wake up and smell the e-mail!
>
> I am the moderator of starmax-talk.
>
> I fully agree with Mike. 13K is way too long. Messages split up into
> multiple-message-pieces are especially annoying. Yer gonna have to learn how
> two write short messages for e-lists.
>
> I know just how fun and exciting it is to learn something new about
> computing, but quoting really long passages, without significant editing, is
> really bad form.
> >
> > Seriously more than two or three good sized paragraphs and most people just
> > hit delete unless it is REALLY interesting stuff.
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I did take your pleeeeeze wake up remark to be exactly what it was--condesending
and dismissive. I chose not to respond, but I see that you have little control
over your lack of tact and excess of egotism.
Just what is it you provide as moderator? Insight? Assistance? Or simplistic
lectures on tiny-minded points of view? Is a sign of your email sophistication
that you no longer use smiley, grumpy, or sad faces?
Or will you show some adolescent display of power and filter me out? I came on
to this site intending to learn and contribute. I suggest you do a little
serious thinking about the face you present to us and your own contributions.
The last pieces I provided were the result of some serious researching. My
conclusions were that the battery loss was a serious and confusing problem for
those of us who hadn't kept on our macs since the day we bought them.
I didn't produce a long list of quotes; it all was original, orderly, edited,
and hopefully interesting in style and content. I trust you understand you're
not the only judge of that. But perhaps you really think you are. Let the other
readers decide if you can.
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I already said in my post that the PRAMchecker wasn't a bright program and
someone could get the same information from there menu clock. Is that part of
your function--providing redundant reviews?
And BTW, I did talk with the author of PRAMchecker that same day about some
modifications that would have a very good chance of giving us predictive
warnings and spare us the problems of PRAM surprises.
I have been seated across the table from your persona at many engineering
meetings. Calcified, constipated, quite incapable of considering any other
points of view, and fiercely territorial. You always have to be dealt with
before any free flow of ideas can occur. And when they do, you pontificate
angrily just before you lapse into a pout.
You're welcome to a simplistic 3 paragraph style. I run a few forums myself and
I have never once instructed my authors and readers there on how or what to
write. It wasn't just a courtesy, I do believe that writing well is a skill that
grows from a confidence in the quality of what one writes. That only comes from
practice and won't blossom here where you seem to intend to keep it at one notch
above a chat room.
I responded personally only because your comments in this thread were
cumulatively pejorative and unnecessary--and it needed to be said in a lanuage
you might understand. Upon review, you are considerably less of a wordsmith
than you fancy, and I'm not quite sure if my closing advice should be loosen
up--or perhaps more usefully-- grow up...
With warmest regards under the circumstances,
Bob Wulkowicz
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