Re: Waradpande seems to have destroyed PIE already

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 05:34:10 -0800 (PST), Franz Gnaedinger
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On Dec 4, 11:40 am, Richard Herring <junk@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:

Can you cite a message-ID, or a Google Groups URL?
That would clear things up nicely.

That''s neither a message ID nor a URL. Are you
constitutionally incapable of answering the question
actually asked?

Why? This isn't a one-off occurrence. Whenever he's asked
for a citation to back up something he claims to have
read or heard, he comes back with some vague allusion
that makes the audience do his research work for him.

But if he already has a posting matching that description
on his screen, it's simple courtesy to the readers to
quote its URL and save them the work of duplicating the
search..

I think that went without saying.

I am really fed up with all those accusations.

Then learn how to give a proper reference.

Whenever I am asked to back up a memory by a quote, I look
out for the message, and provide it in a redundant way:
group poster day year time, so it is clearly
identifiable, even if I should make a typo, and then I
give an exact quote. I make it always like this, also
this time.

Which is a bloody stupid way to do it.

Brian found the message quickly.

I did not. The first few searches on phrases from your
exact quote failed because of the unpredictable locations of
line breaks and quote chevrons. Had you given a URL or
Message-ID, I could have found it instantly.

And if you are not used to Google,

I am. Apparently I'm more familiar with it than you are,
since you don't understand the shortcomings of your method
of giving references and apparently don't know how to use
the Message-ID.

[...]

I just tried to look up those old discussions with Brian
again, but the old archive does not work, from my
over thousand messages only 38 are retrievable.
So I am at a loss, and can only give the summary
I retain from all the discussions I had with Brian:
Before the Greeks nobody was able of a theoretical
insight.

Your memory is bad. I shan't waste my time explaining YET
AGAIN; you were incapable of understanding it nine years
ago, and you've gone downhill since.

[...]

And you, Richard Herring, are really tiring me,
never offering anything, always letting me do all
the work, presenting new ideas, being your target
for your nagging katharsis, being obliged to let
everything go when you have a question.

You are in no position to accuse anyone else of offering
nothing: you offer more nothing than anyone else here.
.