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Bob Larter

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May 27, 2009, 2:47:33 AM5/27/09
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Sn!pe wrote:
> Seamus MacRae <smacr...@live.ca.invalid> wrote:
>
>> _@Jeff_Relf.Seattle.inValid wrote:
>>> Seamus MacRae is pulling your strings, making you dance.
>> I am doing nothing of the sort. I am endeavoring to correct a growing
>> volume of inaccurate public statements about me.
>
> You'd better get a bigger shovel, Seamus, old bean.
>
>> I have taken the liberty of altering the subject line to remove your
>> offensive and incorrect assertion, and of trimming a large volume of
>> unintelligible (to humans) machine-readable text that followed the above
>> error of yours.
>
> I do so hate it when people play games with the headers, innit?

<nods> For someone who claims to value netiquette so highly, it's
surprising that he's unaware of how impolite it is to set followups
without announcing it in the body of the post.


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Adam H. Kerman

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May 27, 2009, 3:32:59 AM5/27/09
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Bob Larter <bobby...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Sn!pe wrote:
>>Seamus MacRae <smacr...@live.ca.invalid> wrote:
>>>_@Jeff_Relf.Seattle.inValid wrote:

>>>>Seamus MacRae is pulling your strings, making you dance.

>>>I am doing nothing of the sort. I am endeavoring to correct a growing
>>>volume of inaccurate public statements about me.

>>You'd better get a bigger shovel, Seamus, old bean.

>>>I have taken the liberty of altering the subject line to remove your
>>>offensive and incorrect assertion, and of trimming a large volume of
>>>unintelligible (to humans) machine-readable text that followed the above
>>>error of yours.

>>I do so hate it when people play games with the headers, innit?

><nods> For someone who claims to value netiquette so highly, it's
>surprising that he's unaware of how impolite it is to set followups
>without announcing it in the body of the post.

Hey! Bitching and moaning is off topic in alt.dev.null.

Lionel

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May 27, 2009, 3:59:06 PM5/27/09
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Well then, you'd better stop doing it, hadn't you? ;^)

Richard Bos

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May 28, 2009, 10:12:45 AM5/28/09
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Lionel <imag...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> > Bob Larter <bobby...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Sn!pe wrote:
> >>> Seamus MacRae <smacr...@live.ca.invalid> wrote:
> >>>> _@Jeff_Relf.Seattle.inValid wrote:
> >
> >>>>> Seamus MacRae is pulling your strings, making you dance.
> >
> >>>> I am doing nothing of the sort. I am endeavoring to correct a growing
> >>>> volume of inaccurate public statements about me.
> >
> >>> You'd better get a bigger shovel, Seamus, old bean.
> >
> >>>> I have taken the liberty of altering the subject line to remove your
> >>>> offensive and incorrect assertion, and of trimming a large volume of
> >>>> unintelligible (to humans) machine-readable text that followed the above
> >>>> error of yours.
> >
> >>> I do so hate it when people play games with the headers, innit?
> >
> >> <nods> For someone who claims to value netiquette so highly, it's
> >> surprising that he's unaware of how impolite it is to set followups
> >> without announcing it in the body of the post.
> >
> > Hey! Bitching and moaning is off topic in alt.dev.null.
>
> Well then, you'd better stop doing it, hadn't you? ;^)

Oh, stop being such whiners, the lot of you!

Richard

Lionel

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May 29, 2009, 1:08:58 AM5/29/09
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That's it; I'm reporting you to ab...@aol.com!

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