DavidBowman wrote:
****! Why does everyone on usenet
have to be so MEAN-SPIRITED? It
seems like I'm the only one who
perceives this stuff as wonderful and
exciting and beautiful, and that
everybody else just gets up in the
morning, does it for a paycheck, and is
irritated when someone asks them
questions that they're not paid to
answer or are "beneath their dignity".

:::rubs temples:::

I think you're right. I think I was out of line. I'm sorry.

Ultimately the problem is that I know a little bit about you personally, and
that colors my responses to you. There's always a subtext there that isn't
present in my other posts to this group.

I'll avoid doing this in the future.

-- Ben

There's always a subtext there that isn't
present in my other posts to this group.

god only knows what I said there that ****ed you off!

Ihave the wrong version of TMPGEnc?

=[ d

DavidBowman:

****! Why does everyone on usenet have to be so MEAN-SPIRITED?

Most likely because of the large number of kooks who pretend to
be interested in an answer to a question and rephrase it until
they receive an answer with semantics they can exploit to misconstrue,
misrepresent or twist to suit some agenda. Writing long explanations
for people who are only interested in twisting an analogy used for
their benefit into an argument and who otherwise pollute the newsgroup,
making it difficult to actually discuss the topic for which the
newsgroup exists, tends to elicit that type response after the first
couple of experiences.

It
seems like I'm the only one who perceives this stuff as wonderful and
exciting and beautiful, and that everybody else just gets up in the
morning, does it for a paycheck, and is irritated when someone asks them
questions that they're not paid to answer or are "beneath their dignity".

As long as it's not trolling (which happens in the real world, too),
to me, no question is "stupid".

I don't think anyone deliberately replies to people whom they
are certain is not trolling or setting up a thread to sandbag anyone
who naive enough to respond as if the article was posted as an earnest
question. It's just not always obvious which is which. The trolls
and kooks are the more prevalent, so some real articles are mistaken
for trolls.