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Article #36Re: Need Urgent Help
From: Jeremy Boden
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 00:00
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In article <370DFF48.7BA8D2A0@flash.net>, Matt McLelland <mattpi@flash.net> writes >Charles Riggs wrote: > >> I have two recommendations for you if you wish to get nice responses >> from Usenet groups: Capitalize your I's for ease of understanding and >> don't begin a message asking for help, or anything else for that >> matter, with "Hey" - it's not polite. > >As you may have noticed, he got quite a few nice responses. Captalizing his I's >might get him a nice response from *you*, but I don't think anyone else cares. >=) > A little politeness never hurt anyone. People who address me as "Hey" and use constructions like "thanx" make me cringe! -- Jeremy Boden mailto:jeremy@jboden.demon.co.uk
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f458d,ab0420a1ca965d5f X-Google-Attributes: gidf458d,public X-Google-Thread: 10d67e,ab0420a1ca965d5f X-Google-Attributes: gid10d67e,public X-Google-Thread: 1130d6,ab0420a1ca965d5f X-Google-Attributes: gid1130d6,public X-Google-Thread: f5482,ab0420a1ca965d5f X-Google-Attributes: gidf5482,public From: Jeremy Boden <jeremy@jboden.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Need Urgent Help Date: 1999/04/09 Message-ID: <ixyNQBA2EkD3Ew6q@jboden.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 464575462 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jboden.demon.co.uk:212.228.149.184 References: <7eilld$ng8$1@newnews.global.net.uk> <3713b749.90636308@news1.tinet.ie> <370DFF48.7BA8D2A0@flash.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 923690319 nnrp-08:20894 NO-IDENT jboden.demon.co.uk:212.228.149.184 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: uk.education.maths,aus.mathematics,alt.math.recreational,alt.algebra.help