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[Richard Heathfield]

YACLCNKWB.

Yet another comp.lang.c netkop wannabe.

Firstly, you claim to be quoting Keith Thompson, but I see nothing here that
he wrote. Please be more careful with attributions in future. Thank you.

Secondly, what are you talking about?

 

[Richard Bos]

% telnet post.news.xs4all.nl 119
Trying 194.109.133.8...

It hangs indefinitely. I don't think post.news.xs4all.nl wants to
talk to me.

And those of us who understand better than Ryan how Usenet works knew
this before you tried it. For at least two reasons.

Apart from which, his whole reply misses the point completely, showing
once more that he does not know how Usenet works.

Richard

 

[Keith Thompson]

Firstly, you claim to be quoting Keith Thompson, but I see nothing here that
he wrote. Please be more careful with attributions in future. Thank you.

Actually, he did quote my previous article (it was below what he wrote
-- i.e., he top-posted). Perhaps you didn't see it because your
newsreader doesn't like his "# " quotation prefix.

Secondly, what are you talking about?

He's saying that because I tried something he suggested and it didn't
work, and/or because I asked him yet again why he persists in using
his foolish "# " quotation prefix, I'm some kind of "netkop wannabe".

I wasn't really expecting a straight answer to my simple question,
though I did have some vague hope. I figured that if I asked him yet
again, either he'd actually answer, or he'd change his behavior, or
he'd respond in a way that would cause even more people to killfile
him. Any of the above, I think, would be an improvement; the second,
of course, would be ideal.

SM Ryan, if you're reading this: I simply asked you a question. I
also made several statements, which you're free to refute if any of
them are in error. There was admittedly an implication behind the
question that you should change your behavior, but I didn't directly
say so. Answer it or not, but I don't think your bizarre insults are
an appropriate response.

 

[Joe Wright]

YACLCNKWB.

Yet another comp.lang.c netkop wannabe.
[ snip ]

I'm trying to remember the last post from SM Ryan that I found useful or
amusing. I am at a loss.

 

[Richard Heathfield]

Actually, he did quote my previous article (it was below what he wrote
-- i.e., he top-posted).

I used "here" very carefully. According to the claim made by his attribution
text, you wrote "YACLCNKWB", whereas in fact you did not.

He's saying that because I tried something he suggested and it didn't
work, and/or because I asked him yet again why he persists in using
his foolish "# " quotation prefix, I'm some kind of "netkop wannabe".

Has he given any reason for us to value his opinion? I can't find any such
reason in the archives.

I wasn't really expecting a straight answer to my simple question,
though I did have some vague hope.

Hope springs eternal...

 

[Randy Howard]

Richard Heathfield wrote
(in article

I used "here" very carefully. According to the claim made by his attribution
text, you wrote "YACLCNKWB", whereas in fact you did not.

Actually it didn't, since the original post in which it appeared
(I went back and looked) didn't have quote characters (of any
kind) in front of the string in question.

 

[Richard Heathfield]

[Relevant attribs retained for ref but abbrevd]

Randy Howard:

Richard Heathfield:

Actually it didn't, since the original post in which it appeared
(I went back and looked) didn't have quote characters (of any
kind) in front of the string in question.

Okay, sorry, I'll accept that it /didn't/, but it /looks/ like it did, at a
casual glance - and that in itself is a sign of sloppy editing.