"Olórin" wrote:

People here are volunteers, willing and trying to help, and deserve
the benefit of your doubt, not to mention common courtesy.

I took great pains to detail exactly what the question was.

It is an insult to that effort to disregard those details when the
response is completely off-base, or even worse, when the response is
along the lines of "you shouldn't be asking that question because there
can be no good reason to do what you want to do".

I make no appology for the responses I gave to those that answered the
question along those lines. Perhaps it will make them stop and think
about how they answer future questions posed by others.

If you'd wanted to have a serious exchange about this, with no
abuse involved, I'd continue with this sub-thread.

I'm still here, and I'm still waiting to see an answer posted.

But as you can't seem to manage to do that, this is end of thread
for me.

This newsgroup is not alt.conversation.etiquette or
alt.please.dont.offend.me.

If you want to discuss the finer points of conversational or
interpersonal etiquette, then I suggest you might find more satisfaction
elsewhere.

You've spend a considerable amount of bandwidth on those topics, and not
on the XP-centric issue at hand.

Have the last word if you must, I'm sure it'll be
scintillating;

I'll do my best.

but I won't be reading it.

Sure you will. You just did.