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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: How do I use GNAT.Directory_Operations.Iteration?
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:46:46 +0100
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Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> writes:
> On Mar 15, 10:20 am, Kulin Remailer <remai...@reece.net.au> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Ludovic! I didn't see your post because like all responsible netizens
>> I killfile all google groups. Thanks to Nasser for quoting you.
>
> I don't know about anyone else, but... if I asked a group of people
> for advice on, say, fishing, and then covered my ears if the person
> who responded came from a country I had a beef with or belonged to a
> political party I don't like---I'd think that would be incredibly rude
> behavior.  This strikes me as similar.  Asking a group for advice, and
> then shutting out a certain subset of that group who may provide good
> advice, seems like poor etiquette, unfriendly, something like that, I
> dunno...
>
> Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, the OP won't see this because I'm
> in the group of people he's killfiled.  Maybe this isn't as big a deal
> as I'm making out of it, but it's really rubbing me the wrong way.

This is not a Google Group, it is Usenet comp.lang.ada; Google Groups is
only one of a large number of Usenet clients allowing access to it.  I
think the OP simply doesn't know that (and therefore is an uneducated
netizen).  But his attitude might say something about the signal to
noise ratio in other Google Groups :)

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.