On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Tony Duell wrote:
You;'d be suprised. Some people take offence
at being told what they
consider to be obvious.
SOME of those folk are surprisingly skilled and experienced, but
hide their light under a bushel, and occasionally write posts that
can be misconstrued/misparsed as having come from a complete newbie.
I always beleive 'Nothing is so obvious that somebody doesn't know it'
[1]. I am also not sufficiently intellegent to know very much about
anything, so I don't (normally?) take offence and being told the obvious...
[1] This is a quote at the start of one chapter of a book on classic
computer interefacing. Anyone care to guess the title?
-tony