----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith N. McKenna" <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> To: <users@openoffice.org> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 11:02 AM Subject: [users] Re: Hijacked thread. Was: Standalone Help Files
> Sean; > My memory is no more excellent or not than anybody else's. It is that > I follow this list not via email, but through the gmane news server so > that I had the entire thread in front of me when I replied to Gene. I wonder where you're so privileged to find a news server. I thought they vanished from the face of the earth. I swear, it's like in unison all ISPs in town dropped usenet some time ago with no warning but a tiny blurb at the bottom of one cable bill (which I missed and had to complain about it). I miss it. > Actually I am one of the most tolerant people you are likely to meet. <sigh> it's just that you don't tolerate me. I had tried to ask an innocent question (so I thought) and get flamed for it. > It is not that people do not want you here. It is simply that it is > long standing etiquette to start a new message or thread for a new > question. I ***DID*** start a new message. I simply used what I thought was a quick and harmless method of doing it so I had the address correct. It keeps the thread on topic and minimizes confusion. If you > have difficulty remembering the list address there are a number of > things that can be done. You can reply and get the address to the list > and copy it to the clipboard, then cancel the mail and start a new > message with a new subject and paste the address from the clipboard into > the to field Yeah but I decided to cut out the middleman because I didn't think it would be a problem. Now I'm shocked. Really shocked. And by now, if all went well I would have had my question answered somehow instead of all this bickering. Sorry to be a problem --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
