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Re: Equation editor in Office 4.2



LJSILICON <ljsilicon@aol.com> wrote:

:>a know, this kind of followup is more of a pointless waste of bandwidth
:>than asking a question in the wrong group. You only make a bad situation 
:>worse complaining about it in a followup which in all likelihood the
:>original poster will never see rather than sending a reply in the mail to
:>that person. That apporach gets the message across and doesn't clutter
:>this group.

: Like this response to my response isn't clutter!? 

I posted in the hope of reducing the overall clutter.

:>There also seems to be a bit of hypocrisy here. People happily answer
:>windows questions posted here but bellyache about Mac questions.

: I would have posted the same reponse to a PC question. This is an Apple II
: newsgroup. This is not the place to field Mac specific or PC specific
: questions. If, however, they relate to an Apple II (interconnection,
: translation, etc.) then that's a different story.

You're right, and I think sending an email rather than posting a followup
will be more effective. It doesn't matter what the nature of the off topic
post is.
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