Dear David

[Steve Holden]

Dan Upton wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2008 8:59 PM, ajaksu <ajaksu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 7, 10:05 pm, "Blubaugh, David A." <dbluba... at belcan.com> wrote:
>>> I do not understand why people such as yourself cannot construct
>>> anything but insults and complaints.
>> I can help with that. People asked politely a few days ago. Didn't you
>> see it? It happens because you're not following basic etiquette and
>> common practice for online communication. That makes your messages
>> annoying and unpleasant, so people complain and insult in return.
>> Things like USING CAPS AND LOTS OF PUNCTUATION SUCkS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> IT MAKES READING HARDER!!!!!!!!!!! LIKE HELL!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!1!!1!!!!!
>> one!!!!!
>> SEE??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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>> ??????????????????? YOU DO,
>> RIGHT????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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> 
> I don't know, I'm inclined to agree with him.  Repeatedly replying to
> bash his use of grammar or punctuation is unnecessary.  Replying to
> the list to mock repeatedly is doubly unnecessary.  If nothing else,
> there comes a point where you should say "look, we tried to help him
> with his mailing list ethics, but it's just not working" and LEAVE IT
> ALONE.
> 
> And speaking of annoyances, changing the subject again and again is
> kind of annoying, too.  At least this one was changing the subject
> line to legitimately a different topic, unlike Steve's "I changed the
> topic because it 'hurt my eyes' to look at that many consecutive
> question marks."
> 
Hey, all *I* did was remove superfluous punctuation. I left all the 
other text in the title alone. I believe I then left the thread alone 
too, having no way to constructively help David with his technical 
issues. I thought that was a legitimate change of subject line.

regards
  Steve
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