On 12 Jun 2008, at 02:41, Chris Walters wrote:
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Everyone makes mistakes, and it is can be good to point them out,
though I do
think this thread is a bit of overkill - a private message to the
person who
made the mistake is usually enough.
The problem with pointing it out privately is that that doesn't
educate anyone else - thus it's more work to point it out privately
to the next person, and the next, and one has to continue suffering
hijacked threads in the meantime.
I think this thread appears "overkill" because I used ALL-CAPS in the
subject, which has propagated to the replies. I won't do that again
in the future, and apologise if this has led some of you to believe I
was having a go at the original hjacker. I was perhaps terse in my
request, but did not intend to be rude.
Stroller.
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