Re: Poor fellow ...

tomaldrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
>On 25-Jul-2005, WaIIy <eIvez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Tom, not showing the post you are replying to makes it not worth reading
>> you.
>> I enjoy your posts, but trying to figure out what you are replying to
>> isn't worth the effort.
>
>Okay this repeat is for the challenged. Now OS and Wally are happy.
>
>Who else would I be responding than to the post I'm replying to ? Maybe
>others are in the habit of responding to a post five messages back, but I'm
>not. Or are you saying that your reading retention is so low you can't
>remember what you just read ?
>I dare say, that in the future Wally you stop reading OSs posts and OS stop
>reading Wallys post, this way you will both have something interesting to
>read and hence build up your reading retentive skills, then maybe and I mean
>maybe you both can be smart enough to grasp my posts.
>Its really suite simple. You read a post then go to next one in the thread,
>and if the post is from me, I'm replying to the post it is linked to.
>Maybe I'm one of the few that keeps a thread intact that I've taken part in
>and don't delete messages within that thread. Too many times I've seen the
>original facts in the original post get lost within the thread. I also keep
>Original posts that I don't respond to so as to see how that thread goes and
>may jump in late in the thread and this is where some of you get lost,
>because you haven't left the original and its threads in place.
>And if Al and Wally had observed the following rules that I use, they would
>have realized I was poking fun at a post they would have agreed with my
>response.
>If all else fails, killfile here I come.

I subscribe to over 100 news groups, most of which are text groups,
and I know I will not take the time to back track to see what you are
responding to. I just don't have the time.
--
Jim Rusling
More or Less Retired
Mustang, OK
http://www.rusling.org
.

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