In article <d1cu0o$1uve$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Manfred Nowak says...
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>Lox TG <Lox_member@pathlink.com> wrote:
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>> Firstable there's no rule page for this forum in the DM site, so all the beautiful things you wrote are only useless chars in a remote DB ;-)
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>I see. Could it be that you are one of these guys who need signs on the walls everywhere?
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>Do you frequently notice, that people stand up and leave when you just sat down?
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>Do you frequently notice, that when you greet people on the road, they do not greet back?
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>Can it be that, if one day somebody will not stand up or will greet back and in addition remarks that incredible body smell makes people lonely, you would bark at him, that there are no signs at the wall that disallow you to have body smell?
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>You are welcome to do what you like, iff you accept that others also do what they like.
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>-manfred
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> 

Still laughing till madness :-D

You're not so bad in the end ;-)

More impressed than before.

"When Rome will Fall
Then the World"

> "When Rome will Fall
> Then the World"

http://anime-empire.kicks-ass.net/404.php

Read on for a seccond or 2

Manfred Nowak wrote:
> Lox TG <Lox_member@pathlink.com> wrote:
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> [...]
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>>I couldn't know if it is a bug or not? Maybe
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> [...]
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>>bothering the guys at DM posting it as a bug on the dedicated
>>forum 
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> [...]
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> This has nothing to do with you yourself declaring as a newbie to
> D. But rather with the rules of thumb existing in news groups: 
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> Using fake names is impolite.
> Using fake email adresses is impolite.
> Cross posting is impolite.
> Posting to general NG, if there is a dedicated NG, is impolite.
> Making wrong statements and not excusing is impolite.
> Beginning a new thread and not leading it is impolite.
> Beginning a new thread on nearly the same subject after a few days
> is impolite. People who start to flame, when they get a hint that
> they might not have followed the rules of thumb, are impolite. Impolite people are considered as spam and plonked or forwarded to
> clown groups. 
> 
> Decide yourself how you want your posts to be treated.
> 
> -manfred

Manfred, please!

Up till we got the new newsgroups, this NG has had an exceptional reputation for being polite, to the point, and helpful.

Let's not create a warzone here. And let's not give D a bad reputation for being "only a language for hostile and aggressive insiders", unwelcoming the unsuspecting.

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If new people have a hard time getting our Rules right, then we should, (or actually *Walter* should) fix it!

How do people find these pages? Is it via Links on DM, for example. If it is, then there should be information on what we want and do not want on a particular NG.

In any case, there should be one page where these rules (or, I'd more like the word "guide lines") are posted.

Instead of telling people to f**k off, we could just refer them to that page.

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P.S: Ok, I've done my share of posting when tired or in a hangover. (Most notably in early 2003, when I totally misrepresented the meaning of float cast to int (or something).) I was so ashamed I didn't post anything here for 6 months. (Check the records.)

There was also (I think before Christmas) a post "D is doomed" or something, with a false name, which (probably) was written both angry and drunk. We all have our guesses on who that was, but we never beat the guy out of this NG either.

Georg Wrede <georg.wrede@nospam.org> wrote:

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> In any case, there should be one page where these rules (or, I'd more like the word "guide lines") are posted.
> 
> Instead of telling people to f**k off, we could just refer them to that page.
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Dear Georg,

I always read your thoughts with pleasure, whether I agree or disagree in the end.

Referring to a page is just including the contents of the page into the post. So it is just a matter of taste whether to consider preformulated text or individually written text more friendly.

I prefer the second choice.

In either case somebody has to start with expressing the unwanted.

If I have choosen the wrong words the next poster can improve on them.

If somebody chooses to provide a link like
http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=c76017cb.0112180637.c1abdb7%
40posting.google.com&output=gplain
somebody may consider the contents also as inapropriate for this
NG. However, I am sure that as I did also the provider of such a
link would not want to express that the originator of the
incriminated post should f**k off.

-manfred