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Re: A little compression...

  To: Bill Buckels
From: Sam.Hobbs@familynet-international.net

"Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> wrote in message 
news:OTT_j.100688$y05.81747@newsfe22.lga...
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> "Sam Hobbs" <samuel@social.rr.com_change_social_to_socal> wrote in message
> O2ImMy6vIHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl">news:O2ImMy6vIHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> You are rudely ignoring the comments that your discussion is off-topic.
>
> And Sam, you also are cross-posting which makes you off-topic as well. But
> never mind that and the fact that I enjoy reading Harry Potter's posts as
> he
> winds his way through usenet jumping from idea to idea...

Messages informing that a discussion is off-topic are on-topic, and if you read 
the other replies, the Apple people imply that this discussion is appropriate 
for the Windows UI newsgroup (the one I am reading). Therefore it is necessary 
to make it clear to them that this discussion is off-topic for the Windows UI 
newsgroup too.

Note that I was the first to politely state that this discussion is off-topic 
for this newsgroup. Therefore the issue needs to be escalated. I will admit 
that it is (hopefully) not necessary to post so many replies, but note that the 
person that created this thread does not listen very well.

> The cross-posting is the problem. Not the OT part because to me Win32, the
> Apple II and the C64 will always be on topic and so will file compression
> and programming and developing software.

You say "Win32". Win32 is a big topic with many, perhaps hundreds of 
newsgroups. This newsgroup is the Win32 UI newsgroup. Compression is not a UI 
topic. There are other Windows newsgroups that are appropriate.
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