__/ [ Snit ] on Tuesday 15 August 2006 08:59 \__
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
> 3827187.b9fW3yU0lg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 8/15/06 12:49 AM:
>
>> __/ [ Snit ] on Tuesday 15 August 2006 08:51 \__
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>>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
>>> 1920209.zNQ1jFNBS2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 8/15/06 12:45 AM:
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>>>> __/ [ alt ] on Tuesday 15 August 2006 08:26 \__
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:53:04 +0200, Hadron Quark wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> There is no need to post each headline as a seperate post.
>>>>>
>>>>> Who asked you? Just because I Don't reply to them doesn't mean I don't
>>>>> read the articles. And it's a lot easier to filter through what I may
>>>>> or may not want to read if each is a seperate post.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why don't you just filter out roy if this is such a problem for you?
>>>>
>>>> 'Hadron' has not been in COLA for longer than a couple of weeks (unless
>>>> he changed E-mail address/+name). S/he doesn't know what proportion of
>>>> the posts came from inane posters like DFS and tab. He also hasn't seen
>>>> the volume of FUD that came from Erik Funkenbusch and the gang of
>>>> Redmond mouthpieces, such as Larry Qualig and some other
>>>> ex-Microsofties. 'Noise' seems to have been reduced to quite a few MS
>>>> apologists like Tom Smith and Oliver Wong. I can't speak for anybody
>>>> else, but I enjoy COLA more than I did last year.
>>>
>>> Did you not enjoy last year much? :)
>>
>> I did actually. Thanks for asking.
>
> My pleasure. I just never would have thought to compare my enjoyment of
> any
> Usenet group with my views on an entire year. To each their own.
>
> :)
It's a fair case of misinterpretation. Remove the ambiguity by replacing the
word "did" with something explicit like "enjoy COLA", i.e. "I can't speak
for anybody else, but I enjoy COLA more than I enjoyed COLA last year"
I would go further and say that I was about to unsubscribe from COLA last
year. I didn't enjoy it at all at the start. I remember preparing to
unsubscribe...
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