Re: Husband needs some help

From: Michael A. Covington (look_at_ai.uga.edu.for.address)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 00:21:53 -0400

Dear Ms. Dietrich,

I'm sorry they jumped on you. In this newsgroup we have a common problem
with people posting a difficult question and saying, "By the way, I won't
read your replies, so everybody, please go to the extra effort of e-mailing
them all to me." That is, they want us all to answer everything twice, once
in the discussion and once privately.

The way I understood it, when you said "I don't read this newsgroup" you
merely meant you hadn't been reading it until then. But others thought you
were demanding personal copies of everything.

Unfortunately I don't have any specific suggestions, but if you come back to
the newsgroup and read the replies, eventually somebody will say something
useful. Unfortunately, electronics newsgroups seem to contain a
considerable number of nuts!

Yours sincerely,

Michael Covington
Associate Director, Artificial Intelligence Center
The University of Georgia - www.ai.uga.edu/mc

"Peg Dietrich" <snpdietrich@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:pe2dnQ3ZKtwezKPcRVn-uA@comcast.com...
>I am sorry I created so much of a uproar. I do not read this news group
> because I don't understand any of what you say. I do licensed day care in
> my home. I read the child care newsgroup. You all are so much smarter
> than
> I am that I don't understand what you say. But I love my husband and
> thought you all could help me help him. He hands me his resume, and asks
> me
> to read it, and I don't understand most of the words on it. He asks me if
> something makes sense, and I have no idea. I have a college degree, but
> it's in Special Education. I know nothing about microprocessors, firmware
> or technical documentation. I have run my own business for 18 years, but
> don't understand the details of what he does.
>
> I know nothing about whether the employment web sites are worth the time,
> what he should wear to an interview, or how to file for unemployment. I
> just thought maybe you all could help me help him.
>
> I'm sorry I took up your time. I won't do that again.
>
> Peg
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Mochuelo" <hola@que.tal> wrote in message
> news:f1frj09idm3frpibj4qbphqbitp90m97o6@4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 08:55:49 +0200, "Frithiof Andreas Jensen"
>> <frithiof.jensen@diespammerdie.jensen.tdcadsl.dk> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >"Peg Dietrich" <snpdietrich@comcast.net> skrev i en meddelelse
>> >news:aJ6dnYrrAvAKnKDcRVn-ow@comcast.com...
>> >> Hi! My name is Peg, and I don't read this newsgroup.
>> >
>> >So, it's like this: *we* can be bothered to answer, but *you* cannot
> spend
>> >your precious time to go read them replies yerself?
>> >
>> >I.O.W: You are demanding a favour and brazenly assume that your time is
>> >worth more than my time - well maybe I have the same view of the
>> >world!!!
>>
>> We all just saw how much worth your time is, spending part of it to
>> write this. You'd do better playing a solitaire game, for instance.
>>
>> M.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> >PS:
>> >
>> >This is not to be rude, but you present as something phishing for email
>> >adresses or perhaps someone needing a lot of well-meaning spam sent to
>> >someone elses mailbox. News is about sharing, not hoarding.
>> >
>>
>
>

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