"PhoenixWench" <slywlf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:485010da$0$31737$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Just a thought.
> A year or so back, in another group, a newbie poster scolded a
> long-standing poster on repeating a quote at the end of every post -
> something to the effect of 'it's cute the first time, but gets boring
> after a while'. The newbie was objecting to the poster's sig line. The
> backlash was sufficiently scathing that the newbie vanished and never
> posted again in that group (unless maybe it was under a different name).
>
> The point I guess is that from what I've observed, Paul may be as new to
> Usenet as BBQ, and as such unfamiliar with thread drift. Nonny did have
> the courtesy to change the subject line, which effectively makes it a
new
> thread, so Paul really had no call to complain, but seems not to know
> that. My suggestion is, before relegating him to the Troll category, or
> kill-filing him, perhaps we might direct him to look up Newsgroup
> Netiquette (there are lots of sites worth checking) to get up to speed.
Take a look at rec.food.cooking under his old names;
Paul Mc noob
Meatnub
I expect DASCO is one in the same.
Schools out for summer.
No one can be that (Kind words) uninformed.
You are a very kind and tolerant person and are to be commended.
--
Old Scoundrel
(AKA Dimitri)
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