On Feb 6, 11:29 am, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
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On 6 Feb 2007 08:47:53 -0800, "Short Wave Sportfishing"
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On Feb 6, 9:26 am, wrote:
On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:07:13 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"

wrote:

You cannot be serious. Please tell me this is a joke.

Consider that a lot of this goofy posting is from a largely, if not
totally, anonymous poster using a particularly old version of Debian
Linux and associated news client.....

Google up the rec.boats proponents of Debian Linux and you will have
most of the usual suspects.....

He seems fairly straight forward to me - I'm not sure where
you developed this idea about goofy posting.

Besides, as somebody who suffers from skin infections of
one sort or another, it seemed like a perfectly valid question
and one that deserved a appropriate answer.

I'm not sure.... some of his prior questions have had such obvious
answers.... it just looked suspect. Some of those questions I offered
my advice. This latest one just seemed extremely obvious and, well,
odd..... and then I noticed that he was using the same posting schema
as the old anon-posting smithers.... made me even more suspicious....

In a cooking newsgroup, about six months ago:

"Can I make lasagna at home? How?"

Somewhere, these people are being stamped out like cookies.- Hide quoted text -

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Again, it's entirely possible that somebody doesn't know.

I'm reminded of a neighbor we had once - husband up and
died, she's left alone - no kids and her relatives are from
Oregon - way 'cross country.

One day she came over and wanted to know how to write
a check, had no idea how to make a doctors appointment,
how to get oil for her oil burner and....

She had no idea how to cook food. Her husband did
everything. She could make a cup of coffee, but had no
idea how long to cook, say, a hamburger never mind
make a full meal.

So there are people who may not know for any number
of reasons. I wouldn't have any idea how to make a
lasagana for example and I wouldn't trust it even if I
made it from a recipe. :)