Re: Diebold Voting Machines - Security Hole

responder <no@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


"John" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.05.12.13.39.23.788992@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The following describes a significant security hole in Diebold
voting machines.

http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/06/05/12/1228203.shtml



John seriously, this is USENET, not RSS. Please give more information

Jay C. James, observe please, right here with your very first words you

"John seriously"?

have clearly implied that OP does not know the difference between RSS and
Usenet, which is obviously not true, and which is obviously offensive. You

To someone who takes offense easily I guess it might be.

owe the man an apology, and you owe every reader here an apology for
making such a *negative* remark, right in your very first words here. You
owe me an apology for having to read that.

?? You did not have to read that. And this after a very very long post in
which you denigrated one of the top selling products on the planet and one
of the top value companies on the planet. And you accuse John of being
negative?



And you didn't give any reason for your rudely expressed request. ...

Had you said something like, I choose for my own reasons and preferences

He said nothing of the sort.

to use an antiquated (though still currently maintained) text based
newsreader that does not make it easy to follow a link, and so I would
prefer to know more before I make that effort, and if you were already a
person who was a demonstrated good and intelligent writer and a good
correspondent, that would have been entirely appropriate and sufficient.

Had you said something like, I read news offline so having more
information about a link in the original post helps me decide which I want
to download when I reconnect, that would have been entirely appropriate
and sufficient.

Had you said something like, I am a complete newbie and such an idiot that
I cannot even be expected to know a slashdot URL when I see it, so I need
more information, well, at least then we could all have had the
opportunity to respect your honesty and request for help.


But you didn't give any reason for your rudely expressed request. ...

You were apparently capable of making up a whole herd of reasons on your
own. Not everyone wants to be as prolix as you.



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There is no crime or offense in reading or posting here with m$ software.
Read away. The offense was in what you wrote (both times). And since you
didn't give any reason for your rudely expressed request, I looked for
that reason in every single letter of your message.

Pardon for not explaining the jargon. But it has been my unfortunate
experience that "windows wankers" "troll" linux newsgroups and post

Wow. Talk about reading into things. He did not have to post more than a
few words, you are perfectly capable of making up a huge story around the
most trivial of observations.


disruptive messages. Since you were so rude and inarticulate, it was my
initial asesment that you might indeed be a "windows wanker" "trolling" to
make trouble. Nothing I have seen since substantially alters that
perception. Maybe if you learned some basic polite manners it would take
some of the sharp corners off of that.

Lets see, you are complaining about rudness?


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