> Anyway, regardless of how you may feel about someone asking a "stupid" 
> question,  NO ONE is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to 
> respond.

True, but neither is anyone holding a gun to anyone's head and forcing 
him to read Olin's (or any other) reply!

That's what I don't understand about both sides (does not include the 
admins): Olin, why grumble about ill-formatted emails? Others: why 
grumble about emails you consider rude? Are your (both sides) delete 
buttons worn out and unusable?

But I do understand
- the admins urge to keep the list manageable, whatever their 
interpretation of that (those who have a different interpretation are 
free to join)
- Olins urge to point out where and how a poster could have found the 
answers to his questions himself

> No, you can't say that. You're assuming that these people are as bright as 
> you and that they could do what you do as easily as you.

No, the assumption is that they put in a minimum amount of work.

> If that's the case, why aren't you jumping in and doing it before Olin? 
> Probably because you know it's wrong.

No, primarily because I am lazy. And sometimes because I don't agree 
with his assembler fixation. And I would be a bit milder, which would 
spoil the effect. and I don't have the fluency in English.

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