On Saturday 29 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote:
> > I, too, know what it's like to receive a reply to one of my
> > questions   which I find to be unhelpful and aggravating. However,
> > "two wrongs don't make a right" and no-one benefits from an angry
> > response.
>
> Oh, so it's now my fault for responding to a flamebait? Nice. It's
> not the aggressor who's doing something wrong?

I started this, so I guess I have the right to make the following
request:

Can we drop this sub-thread now, please?

Michael, I don't see how you could read my original post as flamebait.
You were not supposed to respond, I did not intend you to take offence
and it was a harmless joke. Where I come from it's a self-deprecating
in-joke and it goes like this:

Q: Hmmm, app xyz is broken. What could be wrong?
A: It's software. Come now, you really didn't expect it to work did you?

You have every right in the world to take away from this thread whatever
you want, and I have now explained publicly what I meant. If we still
disagree, then that's 100% fine by me but I think we should get this
out of these other fine folk's inbox.

You have an answer and a solution that appears to suit you. That's a
good point to end this at.

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Alan McKinnon
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