wrote:
mucker111 wrote:
CT CBoater wrote:
Ms. Velveeta wrote:
Whatever happened to posts with a subject heading that properly defined
the actual question asked?

Hee hee! Got ya to read it though, ya gotta admit! ;-)

Yeh, but did it get her a satisfactory answer?

CT is right; a meaningless subject line gets us to read her post (in
order, perhaps, to help) only to discover that we know nothing of the
topic and would not have taken the time to read the message if the
topic had been properly stated.

But at least we are proving her subsequent point: this forum has become
a slug and we have clearly too much time on our hands. Back to BT for
me, where I can get into some SERIOUS quibbling! Oh... sorry... I
forgot... uhh, forgive my red face (but may I assure your many fans
there that you are alive and well? Some of them want to know, yanno?
If I tell them you are here, maybe this place will liven up!)


-Richard, His Kanubic Travesty
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rhopley[at]earthlink[dot]net
Nothing really matters except Boats, Sex, and Rock'n'Roll
rhopley[at]wfubmc[dot]edu
OK, OK; computer programming for scientific research also matters
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Oci-One Kanubi wrote:
wrote:
mucker111 wrote:
CT CBoater wrote:
Ms. Velveeta wrote:
Whatever happened to posts with a subject heading that properly defined
the actual question asked?

Hee hee! Got ya to read it though, ya gotta admit! ;-)

Yeh, but did it get her a satisfactory answer?

CT is right; a meaningless subject line gets us to read her post (in
order, perhaps, to help) only to discover that we know nothing of the
topic and would not have taken the time to read the message if the
topic had been properly stated.

But at least we are proving her subsequent point: this forum has become
a slug and we have clearly too much time on our hands. Back to BT for
me, where I can get into some SERIOUS quibbling! Oh... sorry... I
forgot... uhh, forgive my red face (but may I assure your many fans
there that you are alive and well? Some of them want to know, yanno?
If I tell them you are here, maybe this place will liven up!)

Yeah, you can certainly tell my "fans" I'm alive and well over on BT
and more specifically LL. Yeah, maybe it'll draw a few of 'em (at least
the good ones!) back to Usenet and RBP! :-)

The thing I miss the most about BT is not being able to email via BT to
a few of the folks over there whom I'd like to maintain contact with!
K1chik posted a question about routers the other day, and I was very
anxious to share with her my knowlege, but alas, I do not have her
email addy, so... :-(

John Kuthe, no longer a BTer, forevermore! ;-)

The thing that I didn't understand when I first posted here -- and that some
who hang out here might not understand either -- is how very differently
newsgroup etiquette can be defined from group to group. I have spent most
of my newsgroup time (off and on for more than 10 years) in groups where
mysterious subject lines are commonplace and not frowned upon at all.
Obviously, I posted my question here because I thought it the best place to
find people who might know the answer.

Perhaps one reason this group is a slug is the way innocently misstepping
newcomers are treated.

Happy paddling, folks...

Ms. V

Ms. Velveeta wrote:
The thing that I didn't understand when I first posted here -- and that some
who hang out here might not understand either -- is how very differently
newsgroup etiquette can be defined from group to group. I have spent most
of my newsgroup time (off and on for more than 10 years) in groups where
mysterious subject lines are commonplace and not frowned upon at all.
Obviously, I posted my question here because I thought it the best place to
find people who might know the answer.

Perhaps one reason this group is a slug is the way innocently misstepping
newcomers are treated.

Happy paddling, folks...


Lighten up. Ms. V. Laugh it off.

You weren't scorned or cussed out; you were just mildly rebuked for a
behavior that has irritated me whenever I have encountered it, in any
forum, in 20 years of Usenet. I mean, there is, you know, a reason it
is called the "subject" line in most newsreaders (and mail readers, and
message boards). It's just simple courtesy to use the "subject" line
to state the subject. Less rude now than it was when we aspired to
1024-bps modems, of course, but I still feel little need to read
messages for which I have no response or no interest.

How was CT CBoater to know you were a newcomer and not a lurker or
infrequent poster? And how was he to know you would be so thin skinned
about a mild rebuke?

Smile. Say "cheese". It's just not that bad.


-Richard, His Kanubic Travesty
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Richard Hopley Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Nothing really matters except Boats, Sex, and Rock'n'Roll
rhopley[at]earthlink[dot]net
OK, OK; computer programming for scientific research also matters
rhopley[at]wfubmc[dot]edu
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