> We could let Jinx decide when  - "OK, if you still refuse to take
> notice of my advice I'll turn on the <OLIN> mode .... " :-)

Nah, wouldn't do that. I simply can't work when I'm grumpy
or pre-occupied with something that I know I shouldn't be
pre-occupied with 'cos that'll make me grumpy

As you say RM, Olin was in one of those shoot-first moods and
really should have ignored the OP. And that was his undoing.
Nobody came out a winner. James had indeed made the
position quite clear previously. If you wave a big stick you have
to be prepared to use it one day. Hopefully any newbies who are
wondering what the hell kind of list they've joined will not be
discouraged from posting. I hesitate to say "Ding dong the witch
is dead", as that would be rather cruel wouldn't it ? ;-)

As for not reading manuals and so on - it seems to me that
schooling has changed so much that perhaps those kinds
of skills just aren't there anymore. I have nephews that are
interested in technology and ask me all sorts of things that
would be very easy to look up with Google. But they simply
don't think of doing so. Until I suggest it to them. Every time

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BTW anyone ever seen the Brit series "That'll Teach 'em" ?

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/teachem/

Eye-opener. Modern kids sent back in time to be taught how
they would have been in the '50s. Shocks a'plenty

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