Previously, at 12:28 PM -0800 12/6/10, as ah...clem so eloquently wrote: >> But don't subject the rest of the list to your bad >> manners. And stupid tag lines are not against the list rules. >> Attachments are. Grow up. Dennis Myhand > >since my initial post to this thread, i have had a private exchange >with list nanny Paul Stamsen. i have been accused, because of my >post, of being rude and lacking common courtesy. to that i say that >when individuals post a response containing one single sentence which >actually contributes to an ongoing discussion, but feel the need to >append dozens of lines of useless garbage, and do this over and over >and over, for example:
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