Re: Haven't been here for a while.........

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 15:05:36 +0000

>>Well Steve you and I will have to differ about what constitutes a
discussion. It's very easy to examine a posting line for line and then quote
it back as if it forms the basis of a counter argument.<<

Yes, its very easy.

>> It's not very clever,<<

I never said it was clever.  It's merely a functional and commonly-used method
of talking online.  I didn't misrepresent you, however, and quoted the relevent
lines in full.

>> anyone can do it and it does nothing to initiate a discussion.<<

I know that.  However, my invitation to initiate a discussion was, surely, a
reasonable way to initiate a discussion.  If you see what I mean.  You seemed
to want to talk, but all you did was come on here and throw some mud.  Then,
when invited to talk, you seemed to want to ''take your ball and go home'',
accusing me of being 'defensive' (Im still unclear what they meant.)

>> This
is a criticism more of the way that people use Usenet in general and is
perhaps a major reason for its decline.<<

I think that the reason Usenet is such a pain in the butt is that there are so
many a-holes using it.  I'm not one.  You dont seem to be one either.  Even the
people on here who I dont like very much aren't really.  As Usenet goes, this
is quite a nice forum.

>> It's like interrupting someone at
the end of every sentence to put your own point of view rather than just
replying to the general argument.<<

When somebody takes only a small piece of your comment and uses it out of
context what you say is entirely true.  I didn't do that to you at all, though.
 I used the messages entirely in context and in fully quoted.  I also tried to
offer an option of discussion.

>> I find it incredibly annoying. In my
opinion......<<

Fair enough.  It certainly wasn't my intention to be annoying, only fair.  If I
was somehow annoying to you then I apologise.

>>excuse me is this just the five minute 'discussion' or the full half hour??<<

Not sure. <grin>

But in the matter of discussing stuff, what is 'Summit Soccer' anyway, and how
cool is it... game-wise?

Steve T.

References

Re: Haven't been here for a while.........
"summitsoccer" <summitsoccer@ntlworld.com>
Mon, 05 Mar 2001 01:32:14 +0000

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Re: Haven't been here for a while.........
"summitsoccer" <summitsoccer@ntlworld.com>
Mon, 05 Mar 2001 01:32:14 +0000