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modom (palindrome guy)[_3_]

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:58:24 +0200, (Victor Sack)
wrote:

>Serene Vannoy > wrote:
>
>> Victor Sack wrote:
>> > [malicious crossposting elided]
>> >
>> > Serene Vannoy > wrote:
>> >
>> > [snipped]
>> >
>> > For God's sake, Serene, don't you ever notice crosspostings?
>>
>> I usually do; in this case, I goofed. My apologies to the group, though
>> not to you.
>> >
>> > Get a better newsreader.
>>
>> Get better manners.
>
>What exactly was ill-mannered in my post? Did I touch a sore point?

An abrupt command delivered to a peer can be read as an example of a
paucity of manners. It may not have carried that intent when you
issued it, but I, for one, was rather surprised at the tenor of the
response. You touched no sore point for me other than my expectation
of courtesy from one as knowledgeable as you.
>
>Are you even aware that good newsreaders automatically warn you before
>any intended crossposting and so prevent you from feeding malicious
>trolls?
>
Again, one could imagine a more pleasant way to convey the information
you delivered above. Trolls are genuine and tiresome assholes, to be
sure, but their presence in rfc now and again is (to my mind) less
than a reason to berate one of the more valuable contributors to this
group. While the intent may have been to assist a participant and to
improve the group, the sentence carries also a message of exasperation
and impatience, which is likely to engender hard feelings going
forward.

Trolls like hard feelings. It feeds them as much as crossposting.
More, I'd hazard.
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modom