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"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What Sam Hobbs doesn't seem to realize or care about is the fact that
these newsgroups are distributed worldwide and what you see/don't see of a
given thread can easily be determined by what news server you connect to,
how much time has passed since the post/response was put up as well as how
often the news server's administrator chooses to maintain old conversation
threads, etc. (In other words - the different news servers'
configurations.) What Sam Hobbes sees may be 'more complete' than what
Xandros sees. So Xandros may not have repeated an answer as far as they
could tell.

Did you look at at the relevant times to determine if this comment is
relevant?

What Xandros doesn't seem to realize is that the text generated in this
whole thread - even without the argument between these two (Xandros and
Sam) is a 'colossal waste of time and bandwidth' to someone, somewhere -
no matter what. The argument may have a smaller audience - but given
human nature - it likely had a larger one. It is a waste in terms of the
purpose of this thread - which was to help the Original Poster with their
query...

I was really hoping that the discussion would have ended instead of
increasing. I don't like continuing discussions such as this. I truly do not
and anyone that says differently just wants to be make trouble.

I will admit that I am more vulnerable to others to reacting to situations
such as this. That situation is when someone says something unnecessary in
response to a remark I make. If the previous message had not been seen then
Xandros could have said so. Insterad, Xandros said "So what?" and I answered
that question. There are infinite other possible responses.

There are a few people that get very defensive and usually respond in
strange ways that bait me into correcting them. I respond with facts, not
emotions but instead of admitting a mistake they respond with more bizarre
responses. They eventually resort to making personal attacks. If they just
did not say such bizarre things then the discussion would end.

I want this to end. Comments such as yours are more likely to inflame the
problem. Don't misunderstand me; I consider your remarks to be rational, I
am not saying you are being bizarre.

Again, I truly do not want discussions such as this to continue. Note that
my responses up to here have been brief. Xandros's initial response could
have been a simple acknowledgement that what I said is true; that is all
that would be needed to end the issue.

Perhaps I over-reacted in my comment about a duplicate answer. Most of the
forums I have been active in definitely request that we attempt to not
duplicate answers. For example:

High quality, low static: An answering "HOW-TO"
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1391750&SiteID=1


If one was to analyze the posting for consistency - it would be *this
branch* that would be an outcast - the start of a new conversation
really - with its only connection to the original thread being the
starting point (65+ hours after the initial posting of the query), the
subject line and some of the body staying in the responses and two of the
'participants' (now three) having also responded in the original thread
with valid suggestions to the original question.

I have recently seen other discussions branch of into discussions such as
alchohol and food, so if you are denying that such things happen then you
are not being realistic. Please understand that I truly intend to limit such
things from happening.



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