On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:26:24 -0500, "Stephen Clark" <noone@nothing.not> wrote:
>"daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:ig2163t8qrdct6isblqai8bj8fpgdjlsnl@4ax.com.. .
>> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:42:37 -0500, "Stephen Clark" <noone@nothing.not>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>"Tony" <tshimi@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>>news:ROGdnWUY1MvM5f3bnZ2dnUVZ_v6tnZ2d@comcast.c om...
>>>>
>>>> "daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:j7r0639u2oh8g2ja1ehgupa571rcagj6kg@4ax.com...
>>>>
>>>>> When you come back again....please consider *not* proliferating so many
>>>>> different threads about your problem. Not only is it obnoxious, but in
>>>>> the
>>>>> (somewhat unlikely?) event that you actually figure out what was wrong,
>>>>> it'd
>>>>> be helpful for the answer to be in the same thread as the original
>>>>> question,
>>>>> the debugging advise, incremental evidence, etc, etc, etc....
>>>>>
>>>>> /daytripper
>>>>> '00 s4 6spd
>>>>
>>>> I agree with daytripper; this problem morphed into so many different
>>>> threads and consumed way too much bandwidth. This is a NG not a chat
>>>> room.
>>>>
>>>> P.S. I'm the original Tony (over 10 years with this NG) not the Audi
>>>> super
>>>> Guru.
>>>>
>>>
>>>I have seen many longer threads in this NG that fritter on forever about
>>>nothing....isn't this NG for helping people solve problems and have others
>>>benefit from the ensuing information? If I am misusing it, then I
>>>apologize,
>>>but I thought that is what a newsgroup of this type is for.
>>>
>>>stc
>>
>> Listen up, son. The group exists for folks to share information. But
>> there's a
>> right way to do everything in life. Acting like a petulant child won't
>> make up
>> for the fact that you've been abusing the group by thread proliferation,
>> and
>> claiming a defense based on the idiotic behavior of others is unlikely to
>> prove successful.
>>
>> It's a simple request that benefits the group.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> /daytripper
>> '00 s4 6spd
>
>I think you are misunderstanding the situation, tripper. First of all, I am
>not your son.
>
>Secondly, I was not aware that other newsreaders may be proliferating
>threads, as I have explained.
>
>Thirdly, I apologized for it, even though I wasn't aware I was doing it. The
>idiotic behavior of others is not under my control.
>
>And, lastly, I am not acting like a petulant child. Just tell me what I need
>to do to correct the misunderstanding about threading, and I will gladly
>adapt. I don't mean to offend anyone in this group intentionally, so please
>stop implying that I did something on purpose.
>
>Perhaps you are having a bad day today?

Moi? I've been having an awesome *year* - and today is just another day of it.
If it was about me - then why the hell did I go through the trouble of opening
my Bentley to provide the *definitive* solution to the guy with the sick 1.8T
this afternoon?

Besides, I've totally let pass the ignorant top-posting (thought I confess I
usually leave such trivialities to dizzy

No, it's about you. Simply put, it's about you changing subject lines every
time something new - no matter how trivial - is added to your sad story. Just
leave the subject line alone and post a follow-up to your own thread. I
promise, the very same people will read your post, you won't be effin' up
every other reader in the group, and if some other poor bastid ever finds
himself unluckily following your footsteps, he might have a fricken' prayer of
following all the way to the solution. Assuming you ever stumble upon same.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me...

/daytripper
'00 s4 6spd

 

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:26:24 -0500, "Stephen Clark" <noone@nothing.not> wrote:
>"daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:ig2163t8qrdct6isblqai8bj8fpgdjlsnl@4ax.com.. .
>> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:42:37 -0500, "Stephen Clark" <noone@nothing.not>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>"Tony" <tshimi@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>>news:ROGdnWUY1MvM5f3bnZ2dnUVZ_v6tnZ2d@comcast.c om...
>>>>
>>>> "daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:j7r0639u2oh8g2ja1ehgupa571rcagj6kg@4ax.com...
>>>>
>>>>> When you come back again....please consider *not* proliferating so many
>>>>> different threads about your problem. Not only is it obnoxious, but in
>>>>> the
>>>>> (somewhat unlikely?) event that you actually figure out what was wrong,
>>>>> it'd
>>>>> be helpful for the answer to be in the same thread as the original
>>>>> question,
>>>>> the debugging advise, incremental evidence, etc, etc, etc....
>>>>>
>>>>> /daytripper
>>>>> '00 s4 6spd
>>>>
>>>> I agree with daytripper; this problem morphed into so many different
>>>> threads and consumed way too much bandwidth. This is a NG not a chat
>>>> room.
>>>>
>>>> P.S. I'm the original Tony (over 10 years with this NG) not the Audi
>>>> super
>>>> Guru.
>>>>
>>>
>>>I have seen many longer threads in this NG that fritter on forever about
>>>nothing....isn't this NG for helping people solve problems and have others
>>>benefit from the ensuing information? If I am misusing it, then I
>>>apologize,
>>>but I thought that is what a newsgroup of this type is for.
>>>
>>>stc
>>
>> Listen up, son. The group exists for folks to share information. But
>> there's a
>> right way to do everything in life. Acting like a petulant child won't
>> make up
>> for the fact that you've been abusing the group by thread proliferation,
>> and
>> claiming a defense based on the idiotic behavior of others is unlikely to
>> prove successful.
>>
>> It's a simple request that benefits the group.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> /daytripper
>> '00 s4 6spd
>
>I think you are misunderstanding the situation, tripper. First of all, I am
>not your son.
>
>Secondly, I was not aware that other newsreaders may be proliferating
>threads, as I have explained.
>
>Thirdly, I apologized for it, even though I wasn't aware I was doing it. The
>idiotic behavior of others is not under my control.
>
>And, lastly, I am not acting like a petulant child. Just tell me what I need
>to do to correct the misunderstanding about threading, and I will gladly
>adapt. I don't mean to offend anyone in this group intentionally, so please
>stop implying that I did something on purpose.
>
>Perhaps you are having a bad day today?

Moi? I've been having an awesome *year* - and today is just another day of it.
If it was about me - then why the hell did I go through the trouble of opening
my Bentley to provide the *definitive* solution to the guy with the sick 1.8T
this afternoon?

Besides, I've totally let pass the ignorant top-posting (thought I confess I
usually leave such trivialities to dizzy

No, it's about you. Simply put, it's about you changing subject lines every
time something new - no matter how trivial - is added to your sad story. Just
leave the subject line alone and post a follow-up to your own thread. I
promise, the very same people will read your post, you won't be effin' up
every other reader in the group, and if some other poor bastid ever finds
himself unluckily following your footsteps, he might have a fricken' prayer of
following all the way to the solution. Assuming you ever stumble upon same.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me...

/daytripper
'00 s4 6spd

 

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:26:24 -0500, "Stephen Clark" <noone@nothing.not> wrote:
>"daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:ig2163t8qrdct6isblqai8bj8fpgdjlsnl@4ax.com.. .
>> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:42:37 -0500, "Stephen Clark" <noone@nothing.not>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>"Tony" <tshimi@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>>news:ROGdnWUY1MvM5f3bnZ2dnUVZ_v6tnZ2d@comcast.c om...
>>>>
>>>> "daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:j7r0639u2oh8g2ja1ehgupa571rcagj6kg@4ax.com...
>>>>
>>>>> When you come back again....please consider *not* proliferating so many
>>>>> different threads about your problem. Not only is it obnoxious, but in
>>>>> the
>>>>> (somewhat unlikely?) event that you actually figure out what was wrong,
>>>>> it'd
>>>>> be helpful for the answer to be in the same thread as the original
>>>>> question,
>>>>> the debugging advise, incremental evidence, etc, etc, etc....
>>>>>
>>>>> /daytripper
>>>>> '00 s4 6spd
>>>>
>>>> I agree with daytripper; this problem morphed into so many different
>>>> threads and consumed way too much bandwidth. This is a NG not a chat
>>>> room.
>>>>
>>>> P.S. I'm the original Tony (over 10 years with this NG) not the Audi
>>>> super
>>>> Guru.
>>>>
>>>
>>>I have seen many longer threads in this NG that fritter on forever about
>>>nothing....isn't this NG for helping people solve problems and have others
>>>benefit from the ensuing information? If I am misusing it, then I
>>>apologize,
>>>but I thought that is what a newsgroup of this type is for.
>>>
>>>stc
>>
>> Listen up, son. The group exists for folks to share information. But
>> there's a
>> right way to do everything in life. Acting like a petulant child won't
>> make up
>> for the fact that you've been abusing the group by thread proliferation,
>> and
>> claiming a defense based on the idiotic behavior of others is unlikely to
>> prove successful.
>>
>> It's a simple request that benefits the group.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> /daytripper
>> '00 s4 6spd
>
>I think you are misunderstanding the situation, tripper. First of all, I am
>not your son.
>
>Secondly, I was not aware that other newsreaders may be proliferating
>threads, as I have explained.
>
>Thirdly, I apologized for it, even though I wasn't aware I was doing it. The
>idiotic behavior of others is not under my control.
>
>And, lastly, I am not acting like a petulant child. Just tell me what I need
>to do to correct the misunderstanding about threading, and I will gladly
>adapt. I don't mean to offend anyone in this group intentionally, so please
>stop implying that I did something on purpose.
>
>Perhaps you are having a bad day today?

Moi? I've been having an awesome *year* - and today is just another day of it.
If it was about me - then why the hell did I go through the trouble of opening
my Bentley to provide the *definitive* solution to the guy with the sick 1.8T
this afternoon?

Besides, I've totally let pass the ignorant top-posting (thought I confess I
usually leave such trivialities to dizzy

No, it's about you. Simply put, it's about you changing subject lines every
time something new - no matter how trivial - is added to your sad story. Just
leave the subject line alone and post a follow-up to your own thread. I
promise, the very same people will read your post, you won't be effin' up
every other reader in the group, and if some other poor bastid ever finds
himself unluckily following your footsteps, he might have a fricken' prayer of
following all the way to the solution. Assuming you ever stumble upon same.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me...

/daytripper
'00 s4 6spd

 

"daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ji8163lkgi6lqvadgumioar5r85diqrjik@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:26:24 -0500, "Stephen Clark" <noone@nothing.not>
> wrote:
>>"daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
>>news:ig2163t8qrdct6isblqai8bj8fpgdjlsnl@4ax.com. ..
>>> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:42:37 -0500, "Stephen Clark" <noone@nothing.not>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>"Tony" <tshimi@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>>>news:ROGdnWUY1MvM5f3bnZ2dnUVZ_v6tnZ2d@comcast. com...
>>>>>
>>>>> "daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:j7r0639u2oh8g2ja1ehgupa571rcagj6kg@4ax.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>> When you come back again....please consider *not* proliferating so
>>>>>> many
>>>>>> different threads about your problem. Not only is it obnoxious, but
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> (somewhat unlikely?) event that you actually figure out what was
>>>>>> wrong,
>>>>>> it'd
>>>>>> be helpful for the answer to be in the same thread as the original
>>>>>> question,
>>>>>> the debugging advise, incremental evidence, etc, etc, etc....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /daytripper
>>>>>> '00 s4 6spd
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree with daytripper; this problem morphed into so many different
>>>>> threads and consumed way too much bandwidth. This is a NG not a chat
>>>>> room.
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S. I'm the original Tony (over 10 years with this NG) not the Audi
>>>>> super
>>>>> Guru.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I have seen many longer threads in this NG that fritter on forever about
>>>>nothing....isn't this NG for helping people solve problems and have
>>>>others
>>>>benefit from the ensuing information? If I am misusing it, then I
>>>>apologize,
>>>>but I thought that is what a newsgroup of this type is for.
>>>>
>>>>stc
>>>
>>> Listen up, son. The group exists for folks to share information. But
>>> there's a
>>> right way to do everything in life. Acting like a petulant child won't
>>> make up
>>> for the fact that you've been abusing the group by thread proliferation,
>>> and
>>> claiming a defense based on the idiotic behavior of others is unlikely
>>> to
>>> prove successful.
>>>
>>> It's a simple request that benefits the group.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> /daytripper
>>> '00 s4 6spd
>>
>>I think you are misunderstanding the situation, tripper. First of all, I
>>am
>>not your son.
>>
>>Secondly, I was not aware that other newsreaders may be proliferating
>>threads, as I have explained.
>>
>>Thirdly, I apologized for it, even though I wasn't aware I was doing it.
>>The
>>idiotic behavior of others is not under my control.
>>
>>And, lastly, I am not acting like a petulant child. Just tell me what I
>>need
>>to do to correct the misunderstanding about threading, and I will gladly
>>adapt. I don't mean to offend anyone in this group intentionally, so
>>please
>>stop implying that I did something on purpose.
>>
>>Perhaps you are having a bad day today?
>
> Moi? I've been having an awesome *year* - and today is just another day of
> it.
> If it was about me - then why the hell did I go through the trouble of
> opening
> my Bentley to provide the *definitive* solution to the guy with the sick
> 1.8T
> this afternoon?
>
> Besides, I've totally let pass the ignorant top-posting (thought I confess
> I
> usually leave such trivialities to dizzy
>
> No, it's about you. Simply put, it's about you changing subject lines
> every
> time something new - no matter how trivial - is added to your sad story.
> Just
> leave the subject line alone and post a follow-up to your own thread. I
> promise, the very same people will read your post, you won't be effin' up
> every other reader in the group, and if some other poor bastid ever finds
> himself unluckily following your footsteps, he might have a fricken'
> prayer of
> following all the way to the solution. Assuming you ever stumble upon
> same.
>
> Seems perfectly reasonable to me...
>
> /daytripper
> '00 s4 6spd

Now that I understand that all newsreaders are not alike, I apologize again
to you and all the members of the group that found my discussion hard to
follow. It won't happen again. Thanks to you and the others for pointing it
out to me. I won't post again on this subject until I find the answer to the
problem.

I do sincerely appreciate everyone's suggestions; unfortunately none of them
turned out to be the resolution.

Have a good weekend, trip!

stc

 

"daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ji8163lkgi6lqvadgumioar5r85diqrjik@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:26:24 -0500, "Stephen Clark" <noone@nothing.not>
> wrote:
>>"daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
>>news:ig2163t8qrdct6isblqai8bj8fpgdjlsnl@4ax.com. ..
>>> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:42:37 -0500, "Stephen Clark" <noone@nothing.not>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>"Tony" <tshimi@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>>>news:ROGdnWUY1MvM5f3bnZ2dnUVZ_v6tnZ2d@comcast. com...
>>>>>
>>>>> "daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:j7r0639u2oh8g2ja1ehgupa571rcagj6kg@4ax.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>> When you come back again....please consider *not* proliferating so
>>>>>> many
>>>>>> different threads about your problem. Not only is it obnoxious, but
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> (somewhat unlikely?) event that you actually figure out what was
>>>>>> wrong,
>>>>>> it'd
>>>>>> be helpful for the answer to be in the same thread as the original
>>>>>> question,
>>>>>> the debugging advise, incremental evidence, etc, etc, etc....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /daytripper
>>>>>> '00 s4 6spd
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree with daytripper; this problem morphed into so many different
>>>>> threads and consumed way too much bandwidth. This is a NG not a chat
>>>>> room.
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S. I'm the original Tony (over 10 years with this NG) not the Audi
>>>>> super
>>>>> Guru.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I have seen many longer threads in this NG that fritter on forever about
>>>>nothing....isn't this NG for helping people solve problems and have
>>>>others
>>>>benefit from the ensuing information? If I am misusing it, then I
>>>>apologize,
>>>>but I thought that is what a newsgroup of this type is for.
>>>>
>>>>stc
>>>
>>> Listen up, son. The group exists for folks to share information. But
>>> there's a
>>> right way to do everything in life. Acting like a petulant child won't
>>> make up
>>> for the fact that you've been abusing the group by thread proliferation,
>>> and
>>> claiming a defense based on the idiotic behavior of others is unlikely
>>> to
>>> prove successful.
>>>
>>> It's a simple request that benefits the group.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> /daytripper
>>> '00 s4 6spd
>>
>>I think you are misunderstanding the situation, tripper. First of all, I
>>am
>>not your son.
>>
>>Secondly, I was not aware that other newsreaders may be proliferating
>>threads, as I have explained.
>>
>>Thirdly, I apologized for it, even though I wasn't aware I was doing it.
>>The
>>idiotic behavior of others is not under my control.
>>
>>And, lastly, I am not acting like a petulant child. Just tell me what I
>>need
>>to do to correct the misunderstanding about threading, and I will gladly
>>adapt. I don't mean to offend anyone in this group intentionally, so
>>please
>>stop implying that I did something on purpose.
>>
>>Perhaps you are having a bad day today?
>
> Moi? I've been having an awesome *year* - and today is just another day of
> it.
> If it was about me - then why the hell did I go through the trouble of
> opening
> my Bentley to provide the *definitive* solution to the guy with the sick
> 1.8T
> this afternoon?
>
> Besides, I've totally let pass the ignorant top-posting (thought I confess
> I
> usually leave such trivialities to dizzy
>
> No, it's about you. Simply put, it's about you changing subject lines
> every
> time something new - no matter how trivial - is added to your sad story.
> Just
> leave the subject line alone and post a follow-up to your own thread. I
> promise, the very same people will read your post, you won't be effin' up
> every other reader in the group, and if some other poor bastid ever finds
> himself unluckily following your footsteps, he might have a fricken'
> prayer of
> following all the way to the solution. Assuming you ever stumble upon
> same.
>
> Seems perfectly reasonable to me...
>
> /daytripper
> '00 s4 6spd

Now that I understand that all newsreaders are not alike, I apologize again
to you and all the members of the group that found my discussion hard to
follow. It won't happen again. Thanks to you and the others for pointing it
out to me. I won't post again on this subject until I find the answer to the
problem.

I do sincerely appreciate everyone's suggestions; unfortunately none of them
turned out to be the resolution.

Have a good weekend, trip!

stc

 

"daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ji8163lkgi6lqvadgumioar5r85diqrjik@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:26:24 -0500, "Stephen Clark" <noone@nothing.not>
> wrote:
>>"daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
>>news:ig2163t8qrdct6isblqai8bj8fpgdjlsnl@4ax.com. ..
>>> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:42:37 -0500, "Stephen Clark" <noone@nothing.not>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>"Tony" <tshimi@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>>>news:ROGdnWUY1MvM5f3bnZ2dnUVZ_v6tnZ2d@comcast. com...
>>>>>
>>>>> "daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:j7r0639u2oh8g2ja1ehgupa571rcagj6kg@4ax.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>> When you come back again....please consider *not* proliferating so
>>>>>> many
>>>>>> different threads about your problem. Not only is it obnoxious, but
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> (somewhat unlikely?) event that you actually figure out what was
>>>>>> wrong,
>>>>>> it'd
>>>>>> be helpful for the answer to be in the same thread as the original
>>>>>> question,
>>>>>> the debugging advise, incremental evidence, etc, etc, etc....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /daytripper
>>>>>> '00 s4 6spd
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree with daytripper; this problem morphed into so many different
>>>>> threads and consumed way too much bandwidth. This is a NG not a chat
>>>>> room.
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S. I'm the original Tony (over 10 years with this NG) not the Audi
>>>>> super
>>>>> Guru.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I have seen many longer threads in this NG that fritter on forever about
>>>>nothing....isn't this NG for helping people solve problems and have
>>>>others
>>>>benefit from the ensuing information? If I am misusing it, then I
>>>>apologize,
>>>>but I thought that is what a newsgroup of this type is for.
>>>>
>>>>stc
>>>
>>> Listen up, son. The group exists for folks to share information. But
>>> there's a
>>> right way to do everything in life. Acting like a petulant child won't
>>> make up
>>> for the fact that you've been abusing the group by thread proliferation,
>>> and
>>> claiming a defense based on the idiotic behavior of others is unlikely
>>> to
>>> prove successful.
>>>
>>> It's a simple request that benefits the group.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> /daytripper
>>> '00 s4 6spd
>>
>>I think you are misunderstanding the situation, tripper. First of all, I
>>am
>>not your son.
>>
>>Secondly, I was not aware that other newsreaders may be proliferating
>>threads, as I have explained.
>>
>>Thirdly, I apologized for it, even though I wasn't aware I was doing it.
>>The
>>idiotic behavior of others is not under my control.
>>
>>And, lastly, I am not acting like a petulant child. Just tell me what I
>>need
>>to do to correct the misunderstanding about threading, and I will gladly
>>adapt. I don't mean to offend anyone in this group intentionally, so
>>please
>>stop implying that I did something on purpose.
>>
>>Perhaps you are having a bad day today?
>
> Moi? I've been having an awesome *year* - and today is just another day of
> it.
> If it was about me - then why the hell did I go through the trouble of
> opening
> my Bentley to provide the *definitive* solution to the guy with the sick
> 1.8T
> this afternoon?
>
> Besides, I've totally let pass the ignorant top-posting (thought I confess
> I
> usually leave such trivialities to dizzy
>
> No, it's about you. Simply put, it's about you changing subject lines
> every
> time something new - no matter how trivial - is added to your sad story.
> Just
> leave the subject line alone and post a follow-up to your own thread. I
> promise, the very same people will read your post, you won't be effin' up
> every other reader in the group, and if some other poor bastid ever finds
> himself unluckily following your footsteps, he might have a fricken'
> prayer of
> following all the way to the solution. Assuming you ever stumble upon
> same.
>
> Seems perfectly reasonable to me...
>
> /daytripper
> '00 s4 6spd

Now that I understand that all newsreaders are not alike, I apologize again
to you and all the members of the group that found my discussion hard to
follow. It won't happen again. Thanks to you and the others for pointing it
out to me. I won't post again on this subject until I find the answer to the
problem.

I do sincerely appreciate everyone's suggestions; unfortunately none of them
turned out to be the resolution.

Have a good weekend, trip!

stc

 

"daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ji8163lkgi6lqvadgumioar5r85diqrjik@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:26:24 -0500, "Stephen Clark" <noone@nothing.not>
> wrote:
>>"daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
>>news:ig2163t8qrdct6isblqai8bj8fpgdjlsnl@4ax.com. ..
>>> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:42:37 -0500, "Stephen Clark" <noone@nothing.not>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>"Tony" <tshimi@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>>>news:ROGdnWUY1MvM5f3bnZ2dnUVZ_v6tnZ2d@comcast. com...
>>>>>
>>>>> "daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:j7r0639u2oh8g2ja1ehgupa571rcagj6kg@4ax.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>> When you come back again....please consider *not* proliferating so
>>>>>> many
>>>>>> different threads about your problem. Not only is it obnoxious, but
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> (somewhat unlikely?) event that you actually figure out what was
>>>>>> wrong,
>>>>>> it'd
>>>>>> be helpful for the answer to be in the same thread as the original
>>>>>> question,
>>>>>> the debugging advise, incremental evidence, etc, etc, etc....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /daytripper
>>>>>> '00 s4 6spd
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree with daytripper; this problem morphed into so many different
>>>>> threads and consumed way too much bandwidth. This is a NG not a chat
>>>>> room.
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S. I'm the original Tony (over 10 years with this NG) not the Audi
>>>>> super
>>>>> Guru.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I have seen many longer threads in this NG that fritter on forever about
>>>>nothing....isn't this NG for helping people solve problems and have
>>>>others
>>>>benefit from the ensuing information? If I am misusing it, then I
>>>>apologize,
>>>>but I thought that is what a newsgroup of this type is for.
>>>>
>>>>stc
>>>
>>> Listen up, son. The group exists for folks to share information. But
>>> there's a
>>> right way to do everything in life. Acting like a petulant child won't
>>> make up
>>> for the fact that you've been abusing the group by thread proliferation,
>>> and
>>> claiming a defense based on the idiotic behavior of others is unlikely
>>> to
>>> prove successful.
>>>
>>> It's a simple request that benefits the group.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> /daytripper
>>> '00 s4 6spd
>>
>>I think you are misunderstanding the situation, tripper. First of all, I
>>am
>>not your son.
>>
>>Secondly, I was not aware that other newsreaders may be proliferating
>>threads, as I have explained.
>>
>>Thirdly, I apologized for it, even though I wasn't aware I was doing it.
>>The
>>idiotic behavior of others is not under my control.
>>
>>And, lastly, I am not acting like a petulant child. Just tell me what I
>>need
>>to do to correct the misunderstanding about threading, and I will gladly
>>adapt. I don't mean to offend anyone in this group intentionally, so
>>please
>>stop implying that I did something on purpose.
>>
>>Perhaps you are having a bad day today?
>
> Moi? I've been having an awesome *year* - and today is just another day of
> it.
> If it was about me - then why the hell did I go through the trouble of
> opening
> my Bentley to provide the *definitive* solution to the guy with the sick
> 1.8T
> this afternoon?
>
> Besides, I've totally let pass the ignorant top-posting (thought I confess
> I
> usually leave such trivialities to dizzy
>
> No, it's about you. Simply put, it's about you changing subject lines
> every
> time something new - no matter how trivial - is added to your sad story.
> Just
> leave the subject line alone and post a follow-up to your own thread. I
> promise, the very same people will read your post, you won't be effin' up
> every other reader in the group, and if some other poor bastid ever finds
> himself unluckily following your footsteps, he might have a fricken'
> prayer of
> following all the way to the solution. Assuming you ever stumble upon
> same.
>
> Seems perfectly reasonable to me...
>
> /daytripper
> '00 s4 6spd

Now that I understand that all newsreaders are not alike, I apologize again
to you and all the members of the group that found my discussion hard to
follow. It won't happen again. Thanks to you and the others for pointing it
out to me. I won't post again on this subject until I find the answer to the
problem.

I do sincerely appreciate everyone's suggestions; unfortunately none of them
turned out to be the resolution.

Have a good weekend, trip!

stc

 

In message <1361dv7lhec82a7@corp.supernews.com>, Stephen Clark
<noone@nothing.not> writes
>Thanks, Dave, now I understand what I did wrong. And, now that I know that,
>I'll be aware of the effect of changing the subject line. Although I do
>disagree with they way OE top posts, and I understand that this is an
>on-going controversy, I prefer to read a top post because I don't have to
>scroll all the way to the bottom of the message to read the latest comments.
>In other groups where the convention is bottom posting, and the subject line
>never changes, I often skip long threads without reading them, because it is
>simply too much trouble to scroll through all the repeated text. I often
>deleted repeated text in my replies for this very reason.

So, despite having been asked diplomatically not to top-post and even
opining that you disagree with it yourself, you still did it. Did you
have to be quite so contemptuous of me?

--
Dave N

N.B. Mail to nospam is rejected. Reply-To does work.

 

In message <1361dv7lhec82a7@corp.supernews.com>, Stephen Clark
<noone@nothing.not> writes
>Thanks, Dave, now I understand what I did wrong. And, now that I know that,
>I'll be aware of the effect of changing the subject line. Although I do
>disagree with they way OE top posts, and I understand that this is an
>on-going controversy, I prefer to read a top post because I don't have to
>scroll all the way to the bottom of the message to read the latest comments.
>In other groups where the convention is bottom posting, and the subject line
>never changes, I often skip long threads without reading them, because it is
>simply too much trouble to scroll through all the repeated text. I often
>deleted repeated text in my replies for this very reason.

So, despite having been asked diplomatically not to top-post and even
opining that you disagree with it yourself, you still did it. Did you
have to be quite so contemptuous of me?

--
Dave N

N.B. Mail to nospam is rejected. Reply-To does work.

 

In message <1361dv7lhec82a7@corp.supernews.com>, Stephen Clark
<noone@nothing.not> writes
>Thanks, Dave, now I understand what I did wrong. And, now that I know that,
>I'll be aware of the effect of changing the subject line. Although I do
>disagree with they way OE top posts, and I understand that this is an
>on-going controversy, I prefer to read a top post because I don't have to
>scroll all the way to the bottom of the message to read the latest comments.
>In other groups where the convention is bottom posting, and the subject line
>never changes, I often skip long threads without reading them, because it is
>simply too much trouble to scroll through all the repeated text. I often
>deleted repeated text in my replies for this very reason.

So, despite having been asked diplomatically not to top-post and even
opining that you disagree with it yourself, you still did it. Did you
have to be quite so contemptuous of me?

--
Dave N

N.B. Mail to nospam is rejected. Reply-To does work.