Gail Futoran wrote:
My PSA *followed* your post in the thread, but was not in *response* to your
post.
...
When someone responds to another person, they include what the OP (original
poster) wrote or some part of it and author identification, as above. But
anyone can post something "new" to an existing thread without specifically
responding to anyone else. That's how USENET
works.

As far as I can see the only people here are those waiting for r.p.m,
and those that have ruined r.p over the last couple of years. We
probably all know how USENET works. The way I use USENET is that you
reply to the OP if your comment is not relevant to the current thread.
You replied to my message in the main thread, that's the reason I
questioned it's meaning.

There have been a fair amount of accusations made during the discussion in
the past two weeks where one person asserts another person posted something,
and the assertion was not true. Checking the Google archives is one way of
sorting out the truth.

Hopefully Big-8 will see through all the crap and give us r.p.mod. After
that, if it's not pond related, it does not matter.


I posted my "PSA" to two relevant threads, once each, and I won't do it
again. Basically, because I give up. ::shrug::

Gail
rec.ponder since April 2003