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billy_bunter wrote:

(... and please snip when you add a one line comment in response
to a multi-line post)

I will post how and where I like, thank you very much.

Absolutely, I've no problem with that, it was just a polite request
to make life easier for those reading your posts. If you don't want
to snip then so be it but being sociable by trimming does make
reading newsgroups a more pleasant experience.

--
Chris Green )

What do you mean? Is this a serious complaint? Please explain without any
cockiness

To whom are you replying about what and why?
There are no lines with the appropriate number of attribution marks for a
person to whom you are replying.

Please also thank me for removing your note from the top. Since you have
mangled the thread, I don't know whether it belongs where I put it, but
anywhere is better than all on its lonesome self at the top.

Franz

It simply amazes me that there are now many more posts
about netiquette on this thread than the actual subject of concern.

Really?

You've been counting??

I failed to realise the hysteria
and derision that I would create with just 12 words.

Ah - you ARE counting.

I believe that there are other ng's for number fanatics, I'm sure you'd be
far happier there.

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from billy_bunter contains these words:

I realise that now. It simply amazes me that there are now many more posts
about netiquette on this thread than the actual subject of concern. My
reply was not meant to offend, simply to assert my usenet right to post as
and where I please. I will now bow to the overwhelming group pressure and
restrict myself to minimalism in future. I failed to realise the hysteria
and derision that I would create with just 12 words. I apologise.

Ego te absolvo. And, respec'.

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It'll still colonise a pretty wide area in not many years if left to
itself then. The other problem is that once you've 'had' it then
there are seeds on your land which remain viable for a long time.

Too true: I dug over a piece of 'lawn' this spring and planted three
nasturtiums and about eight sunflowers.

As well as those, I have a selection of violas, pansies,
heartsease/viola cross, sweet tobacco, catnip, lobelia, begonias, some
type of geranium (not pelargonium), a teazel, the usual weeds and one
peanut.

Quite a show, despite having potted up the peanut and the catnip.

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from "The Devil's Advocate"
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What do you mean? Is this a serious complaint? Please explain without any
cockiness

Plonk.

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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:52:43 GMT, billy_bunter wrote:

said...:

I realise that now. It simply amazes me that there are now many more posts
about netiquette on this thread than the actual subject of concern. My
reply was not meant to offend, simply to assert my usenet right to post as
and where I please. I will now bow to the overwhelming group pressure and
restrict myself to minimalism in future. I failed to realise the hysteria
and derision that I would create with just 12 words. I apologise.


It's just one of those things that gets up people's noses - like
answermachine messages with background music, or reaaaallly funny
'impressions' that go on and on when all you want to do is leave your
name and number.... or automated services that reel off menus and
submenus of options, none of which really suit the nature of your
call, and end up bunging you in a queue to speak to 'an advisor'.

Next time it happens to you ( and it happens to us all these days ),
just quietly consider the irony.

Regards,



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http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk
Emails to: showard{who is at}shwoodwind{dot}co{dot}uk

The Devil's Advocate wrote:
wrote:
billy_bunter wrote:

(... and please snip when you add a one line comment in response
to a multi-line post)

I will post how and where I like, thank you very much.

Absolutely, I've no problem with that, it was just a polite request
to make life easier for those reading your posts. If you don't want
to snip then so be it but being sociable by trimming does make
reading newsgroups a more pleasant experience.

--
Chris Green )

What do you mean? Is this a serious complaint? Please explain without any
cockiness

Whose comment are you referring to? I can't really see where my
comments were diffciult to understand.

--
Chris Green )

That's because you know what you're talking about lol. Is there some uniform
way of posting to which you alluded in your note? thanks

Robert The Devil's Advocate www.pafc.co.uk

wrote:
The Devil's Advocate wrote:
wrote:
billy_bunter wrote:

(... and please snip when you add a one line comment in response
to a multi-line post)

I will post how and where I like, thank you very much.

Absolutely, I've no problem with that, it was just a polite
request to make life easier for those reading your posts. If you
don't want to snip then so be it but being sociable by trimming
does make reading newsgroups a more pleasant experience.

--
Chris Green )

What do you mean? Is this a serious complaint? Please explain
without any cockiness

Whose comment are you referring to? I can't really see where my
comments were diffciult to understand.

--
Chris Green )

"The Devil's Advocate" wrote in
message ...
That's because you know what you're talking about lol. Is there some
uniform
way of posting to which you alluded in your note? thanks

Yes, there is. And one of its first precepts is to look with extreme
disfavour on the top-posting with which you seem to be enamoured.

[snip]

Franz

"The Devil's Advocate" wrote in
message ...
That's because you know what you're talking about lol. Is there some
uniform
way of posting to which you alluded in your note? thanks

Yes, there is. And one of its first precepts is to look with extreme
disfavour on the top-posting with which you seem to be enamoured.

[snip]

Franz

The Devil's Advocate wrote:
Robert The Devil's Advocate www.pafc.co.uk

wrote:
The Devil's Advocate wrote:
wrote:
billy_bunter wrote:

(... and please snip when you add a one line comment in response
to a multi-line post)

I will post how and where I like, thank you very much.

Absolutely, I've no problem with that, it was just a polite
request to make life easier for those reading your posts. If you
don't want to snip then so be it but being sociable by trimming
does make reading newsgroups a more pleasant experience.

--
Chris Green )

What do you mean? Is this a serious complaint? Please explain
without any cockiness

Whose comment are you referring to? I can't really see where my
comments were diffciult to understand.

That's because you know what you're talking about lol. Is there some uniform
way of posting to which you alluded in your note? thanks

Yes (hint, hint)! :-)

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Chris Green )

But perhaps you meant that they could graze anywhere else in your lovely
garden ;-)

:-)

I most certainly did not ;-)
But if they did, I would not meet out to them the kind of treatment
other urglers are wishing upon cats, thus demonstrating my unselfish
nature.
--
I've obviously missed something ...

When cats manage to get into my garden I simply pick up a stone and raise my
arm. I've never hit one yet. They move too fast.

In truth I've never even thrown one because they see the intention in my
face. Not daft, cats ...

My problem with cats is that the hens don't like them, by the way, not that
I have a personal hostility. Never had a problem with horses though. Don't
see any in Chapeltown unless they're attached to a cart.

Mary

Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

The message
from Kate Morgan contains these words:

Is there anyone left who thinks there is still some meat to be had in this
thread, or can we all just let it die a death by now?

Franz

Hear Hear, I wish I had never started it :-)

Oh, I don't know: while the subject has generated some heat, it has also
produced a fair amount of light.

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"Tim Challenger" "timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at" wrote in message
s.com...
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:26:14 +0100, Rusty Hinge wrote:

[snip all]

Is there anyone left who thinks there is still some meat to be had in this
thread, or can we all just let it die a death by now?

I suppose we could all emulate Socrates with a draught of ragwort....

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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
t...

[snip]

In truth I've never even thrown one because they see the intention in my
face. Not daft, cats ...

That's right. As soon as your back is turned, they're back again.

[snip]

Franz