Time for you to read some Usenet FAQs. Moving a discussion of MS-DOS
programming to the newsgroup for MS-DOS programming is hardly "playing
around". Don't unthinkingly follow the bad example of Rod Pemberton's
cluelessness, here. Put the thinking cap on and think!
You were playing around with headers long before Rod's observation.
And your disparaging remark about him is invalid, by the way. His
comments unfailingly show a good deal of thought, and knowledge of the
subjects under discussion.
Speaking of Usenet I'd ask you when posting if you'd kindly do the
following.
Please change subject lines less frequently than you have been doing.
If necessary it may be better to start a new topic in a new thread. If
you must change a subject line it can be helpful to just add the new
subject leaving some or all of the original text.
Please change cross-post groups less frequently than you have been
doing. That way fewer threads will pop up in new groups without
context.
Please include more context in your quotes. Terse, incomplete
inclusions can misrepresent the person you are quoting.
As Keith and others have been asking you, please retain attribution
when quoting someone else's words.
And, please don't keep making hidden changes to followups. If you want
to change followups it would be a courtesy to state the change you
have made.
Warning to others: When replying to Jonathan you may like to check how
followups are set - i.e. what groups you are replying to. He changes
them without notice. For example, this thread was only in comp.lang.c.
Without warning anyone (and without posting to these groups himself)
he earlier added in followups to
comp.os.msdos.programmer, openwatcom.users.c_cpp
leading anyone who replied to him without checking to inadvertently
post to those groups. The confusion therefrom is what led to this
subthread. And he silently *replaced* all groups with followups to
news.newusers.questions
in the message I'm replying to. Hoping to catch me out, no doubt. As I
stated earlier, he plays around with headers. I think that's been
clearly demonstrated. QED!
James