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Nick wrote:
> "General" <g@eneral.com> wrote in message
> news:to2dnYq4ZflIifnfRVn-1A@rogers.com...
> >
> > "Nick" <nick@yourstuff.com> wrote in message
> > news:1113852048.14486.0@lotis.uk.clara.net...
> >> "General" <g@eneral.com> wrote in message
> >> news:X46dnYY_AJiDSf7fRVn-qw@rogers.com...
> >>> Peter, I thought you were not going to post in AGHL anymore. That
lasted
> >>> long.
> >>
> >> Your point?
> >>
> >
> > Your point in asking / answering a query that was directed at
someone
> > else. Do you always butt your nose in where it doesn't belong.
>
> Welcome to the very public world of Usenet, sonny. If you'd wanted to
speak
> with him privately, you should have emailed him.
>
> So, I repeat - your point?
In a way, you have answered your own question.
General thinks he has caught Peter out, and therefore scored a "point"
(d'you get it now?).
The rest of us are wowed by General's prowess and in awe of him as a
result. And of course his clever put down of you, when you didn't
notice that a comment on a public forum was actually a private message,
but made public only so we could all bear witness to General's rapier
wit and encyclopaedic powers of recall. It was not made public so we
could comment on its asininity.
Of course, you have compounded your errors by now insinuating that
General is a newbie on Usenet. Oh woe, woe and thrice woe! I'm
certainly going to be checking back for whatever razor sharp wisecrack
General comes back at you with!
Ah... the joys of Usenet....