Hat: Admin On 11 May 2011 00:02, Olin Lathrop wrote: > I find someone with a attitude problem hiding a political statement withi= n a > question not worth helping. =A0Grow up and ask your real question. =A0If = you > want to make a political statement go find a soapbox elsewhere. > > (That this is not a defense of Windows, just a reaction to the implied, > obnoxious, and childish "everyone knows" type of indictment.) Brought to you by the letters K & L (from KL): 1. Please ensure that subject tags are preserved when you post replies. Your response had had the [OT] stripped off, as sometimes happens, thus dividing the thread. Where in the system this happens or why is irrelevant. (It can happen to anyone but do please try and remedy it when it does). 2. Ad hominem attacks, which your diatribe is, are not acceptable on list. If you feel obliged to abuse other list members (or people at random) please do so offlist. As this is not the first time that you have done this gratuitously with a specific subset of list members as targets, please consider this a formal warning that this is unacceptable behaviour. 3. Regardless of the merits of the associated arguments, and yours are, at best, moot, responses should be directed to the subject at hand. If you wish to hold forth about all the reasons that you don't think questions are worthy of your answering, please do it in a separate OT thread, title it appropriately (references to 'The Grinch' optional) and people will read it and/or participate if they see fit. Such threads may or may not prove to violate list rules but that can be judged on its merit at the time. Russell McMahon Hats off: --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .