"Michael Ash" <mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:1162091130.43223@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc Peter Olcott <NoSpam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>
>> "Michael Ash" <mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:1162069400.16399@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> In comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc Peter Olcott <NoSpam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>>> Can this be done in Mac OS, and how is it done?
>>>
>>> Did you not see the six responses you got in the other thread where
you
>>> asked the exact same question?
>>
>> Most of the answers were wrong, because I was not specific enough with
my
>> question, and the one answer that was not wrong left out details that I
>> needed.
>
> Starting a new thread with no acknowledgement of the previous thread is
> violating rule #9. This newsgroup isn't a machine, it's just a place for
Exactly what difference does it make?
> people to discuss things. Don't treat it like a game where you just have
> to get the format correct so you can get your answer. If we were all
face
> to face you would probably say something like, "sorry, I was unclear,
let
> me start over", before you actually did start over; do the same even
> though we're all just phosphors on the screen.
Except with newsgroups you could very well get an entirely different set
of
people that never saw the first message, because the different subject
line
screened them out, or for many other reasons. Although newsgroup postings
have
some of the aspects of a conversion, they also have some of the aspects of
mass
communication, one can not correctly ignore the latter.
>
> And on a slightly different topic, don't just put your question in the
> subject, put a subject in the subject and put your question in the body,
> it makes it easier to read and refer to, and frees you from having to
> squeeze the question into a few dozen characters.
Exactly what difference does it make?
My subject and my question are one and the same thing, If I don't get
right to
the point immediately the majority of people that only read the subject
before
deciding whether or not to even look at the message will never get around
to
seeing my question.
>
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> Michael Ash
> Rogue Amoeba Software
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