Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 16:31:26 06/24/02
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>I knew before I asked the question that it was dumb, and stupid, and that some >people would belittle me for asking, or for my inability to grasp it easily. So >I hesitated, but asked it nevertheless. Fortunately Mike S. understood my need, >and fulfilled it. Your response was to refer me to a mountain of words, which I >hesitated to climb. Then when I was reluctant, you prefer to belittle me. I >don't think you should be in the business of trying to answer these questions >considering your uneven temperament. It is because of you, and people like you, >that people hesitate to ask simple questions in the first place. You think you >know it all anyway, so everyone else is dumb. I'm sorry, but this is way out. You asked what features the CB opening report provided, and the link I provided you with is exactly answering this question. My answer wasn't a mountain of words, it was a web page with a step-by-step description of the opening report feature of CB, no more, no less. You could have said: oops, thanks, but it seems that's much too complicated for my needs, but thanks anyway. Instead of that you said: well that's a lot of text, I haven't got the time to read, so I won't look at it; but in the mean time please provide me with a shorter anwer anyhow. If an "opening report feature" is a too elaborate feature for you, I'm the last one to criticize that. But you asked a question, got a to-the-point answer, and told you were not interested in it. Why you then come up with curious statements about my temperament, about my vision on people asking questions being dumb, about my assessment of my and other peoples knowledge, and about belitteling, is not only puzzling, but worse, a bad and cheap debating trick to belittle *me*. Talking about the pot calling the kettle black. J.
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