In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/01/2006
at 05:16 PM, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>What's that expression used on your side of the pond, "Let's cut some
>slack here"?
The question is "How much?"
>Let us assume that I knew there were incredibly helpful newsgroups
>available where every technical problem can be mulled over in detail
That doesn't sound like the Usenet I know. Google for "homework".
>Perhaps I might have asked this newsgroup
The Devil is in the details. What might you have asked? Ted was
extremely polite by Usenet standards.
BTW, Ted was not posting to a news group, he was sending to a mail
list.
>rather than my local help desk
I would expect the local help desk to ask him what he was trying to
do.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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