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Re: Need Urgent Help

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From: Jeremy Boden
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!
 
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Jeremy Boden                    mailto:jeremy@jboden.demon.co.uk
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From: Jeremy Boden <jeremy@jboden.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Need Urgent Help
Date: 1999/04/09
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