On 15-Jul-00, Jerome Fisher wrote:
>
> There's always an ironic and hypocritical aspect to commenting on people
> posting
> off-topic emails, but for once I'm going to do so. It's long, it's a
> gratuitous
> bitch session, ignore it :)
[...]
>
> I apologise for wasting your time and bandwidth.
That was a good summary. Over the years I have sen hundreds of people make
an newbie faux pas in various on-line forums. They have always responded
with something like." Oh sorry I didn't realise I had done wrong." And that
is the end of it.
Andre Van Wyk is the first I have seen stubbornly insisting that he is right and
every one else is wrong. There is nothing wrong with being a newbie, and
nothing wrong with being a stupid newbie, but his being a bloody-minded,
argumentative newbie who refuses to listen to old-timers is hard to take.
One can imagine trying to explain to him why it is not considered polite to
blow his nose on the table cloth in a resaurant, while he insists there is
nothing wrong with it..
Regards
--
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