On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:47:31 -0700, oogity <bo*****@newsgroup.nospam>
wrote:
insulting ? it was just a comment critiquing a crappy attitude - I fail
to
see how being helpful ( if indeed one is being helpful ) necessitates or
validates being needlesly critical.
Define "needlessly critical". Personally, I find a person who posts a
reply to a thread in which they are otherwise uninvolved, just to post an
arbitrarily sarcastic and insulting message, to be "needlessly critical".
Does that description sound familiar to you?
On the other hand, nothing in _my_ post was critical at all. Every
suggestion was phrased as a polite request, with the intent of providing
"rodchar" with enough information for him to rephrase his question in a
way that would be most likely to solicit useful information.
Given that "rodchar" is a regular around here, I assumed that he didn't
need any more sugar-coating than that just to get the idea (in fact, he
probably needed less, but being polite is always a good idea). But even
as it was, there was no criticism.
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sorry for wasting anyones bandwidth with this post.
Apology accepted.
Pete