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Mat <Ask@me> typed:
> DaleW wrote:
>
> Hi Dale,
>
> Don't get me wrong, I wasn't upset or anything.
>
>> Mat,
>>
>> As Enoavidh points out, it means Your Mileage May Vary
>> (Americanism,
>> meaning you might have different opinion). I certainly don't
>> check
>> the validity of poster's emails in most cases, I was just
>> pointing
>> out when someone comes out of nowhere with controversial
>> opinions,
>> if they don't have a a more concrete persona than a Usenet
>> tag it
>> might not be worth arguing with.
>> As an aside, it is a time-honored tradition of Usenet in some
>> circumstances to "take it to email'. Your choice, but you
>> might chose
>> to set up a free "public" address (yahoo, hotmail, etc) in
>> case
>> anyone tries to communicate offgroup. Or not, if you prefer.
>>
>> In any case my comments re real names and addresses were
>> mainly
>> directed at troll-like posters.


I too don't provide an E-mail address in my postings (although I
use my real name), both here and in other newsgroups, for a
variety of reasons. But anybody who wants to contact me by E-mail
can; my address isn't hard to find (at least a few people here
know it) and almost anyone who doesn't know it and wants it can
get it simply by asking me for it.

--
Ken Blake
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