At 20:38 24-8-01 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
>Sorry for the long quotes everyone, but I think the documentation might help
>clear up misunderstandings.
After reading your post, I must conclude that all that quoting large parts
of posts was not necessary, but only contributed to waste of bandwidth and
disk space.
> > >Yet, it was over four days later that you finally said that debunking was
> > >a stronger word than you meant. If it was, and you were worried about me
> > >misinterpreting you, why didn't you clarify it in your next reply to me?
> >
> > Has it occured to you that there may have been other posts that were given
> > a higher priority on my "reply to this message" list? And has it occured
> > to you that there are other things that require my time and attention? You
> > know, things like Wife & Child & Full-time job?
> >
> > And if you think four days is long: I've asked questions longer ago than
> > four days, that still haven't been answered.
<snip long quote of old post>
>Your reply to part of that post quickly followed:
<snip another long quote of old post>
>Yes, there is a discrepency of a few minutes in the posting times for my
>post , but I attribute that to the times our servers see the posts. Indeed,
>I can verfiy that my post is 73988 in egroups listing of brin-l. I looked
>for posts in that thread around then by me with that paragraph, and could
>not find them.
Ah, and you believe *your* posts are the only ones I reply to?
>So, you responded to the paragraph just above the section of my post that I
>presented earlier today. You responded within a day I assumed you read but
>decided to not respond to my definition of debunking. As I wrote this
>response I thought it might have been possible that you had simply gotten
>the bug to write then and there and didn't finish reading my post.
FYI, I always read all my incoming e-mail before replying to anything. It
prevents me from posting something and then find out someone else had
already said the same thing.
But why should I reply to everything you say anyway? You certainly do not
always reply to posts that are directed at you, even when those posts
contain non-rhetorical questions.
Jeroen
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