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"Michael Lee" <gte980p@prism.gatech.edu> wrote :

> jeez, don't be so harsh.  He's just letting Sarah know that it's on his
Tivo
> and he's leaving it open for her to make a suggestion (either copy to
> videotape or go to his place and watch it).

Aww, come on!   Just a bit of sarcasm!!!!

But seriously, don't you think people should be a bit more specific?

 In the case of this message, either the person does or does not have a way
to make a copy of the show from their Tivo.

 He could have stated, "It's on my Tivo, and I have a VCR, so perhaps I can
do that for you. Let's talk."

--or if not--

"It's on my Tivo, but I have no way to make a copy of it."

Both are pretty general, but leave a lot more to respond to.  Even the
second response could elicit some sort of idea now that she knows what she's
dealing with.

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 A footnote:  I don't particularly like people sending me flames via email
about stuff I post on newsgroups.  Post it here if you have a problem. (You
know who you are).  Ya know, I usually don't post to or even read these
groups, but I happened to skim through here while reading class newsgroups.
Except for my own class questions, about the only other thing that I respond
to are posts like this.

For example, in one class group, someone posted under the subject "First
time compiling prj0" with nothing in the body.

I responded  ---"Good for you!  But, uh.....    was there a problem?  Did it
work? Or.. did you just want to let us know that you did it? Oh yeah, and if
you accidentally post(i suspect that you did), you can usually cancel the
message." ---

 Since all the TA's post about cancelling messages, I thought that it was a
light hearted attempt to be a bit funny while informing someone about
cancelling messages.  Of course I knew that this guy made a mistake!!!!

Oh well, I'm going to do something more entertaining...