Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/06/26/14:41:30
"Pete Becker" <petebecker AT acm DOT org> wrote in message
news:3B389E3A DOT 2829C0DC AT acm DOT org...
> Stuart Golodetz wrote:
> >
> >
> > The issue was not the point I was making, I was saying that perhaps the
fact
> > that he was misreading hex meant he was trying something which was too
> > difficult for him. As it happens he *can* in fact read hex, as he has
kindly
> > pointed out to me in an email flame, despite the fact that I pointed out
I
> > was not trying to be offensive.
>
> Whether or not you were trying, you succeeded. Newsgroup postings often
> have minor (and sometimes major) mistakes, and to question someone's
> competence based on minor mistakes is, indeed, insulting.
>
> --
> Pete Becker
> Dinkumware, Ltd. (http://www.dinkumware.com)
In that case I'm sorry. *Puts on flame-retardant suit* I guess like everyone
else I sometimes write insulting posts which aren't properly thought
through. Either way, no offence was meant, I wasn't questioning his general
competence, I was questioning whether or not he could read hex. Since he
can, my remarks were out of place and I'm sorry. That having been said, it's
not worth getting into a long flame war about really. People have insulted
me before, I've flamed them, they've flamed me back and then we've quit
fighting and made friends again, it's not worth the hassle frankly. Mistakes
are mistakes, and I made one and I'm sorry, it's the way things go sometimes
when you're rushed. I spend about half an hour to an hour a day reading the
entire group (about 200 new messages) so some of my posts are somewhat
unadvised (big understatement)... :o) So to the OP, I have now officially
realised the error of my ways and hope to move forward in the world as a
more compassionate person who doesn't question the hex-reading ability of
others... :o) That do as an apology?
C'ya,
Stuart.
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