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Re: Nslookup

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On 19 mai, 16:08, Lew <no...@lewscanon.com> wrote:
> Michael Doubez wrote:
>  > Lew wrote:
>
>  >> Michael Doubez wrote: >>> Lew wrote:
>  >>>> bugbear wrote:
>  >>>>> Lew wrote:
>
>  >>>>>> Joe, if you want to discuss this with people who will take your question
>  >>>>>> seriously, please feel free to do so. I apologize that I do not know how
>  >>>>>> to answer your question, but I support your right to ask it. At least
>  >>>>>> among us practical-minded folk.
>  >>
>  >>>>> One might wonder why the comp hierarchy is split at all, following your
> "logic"
>  >>
>  >>>> I guess that depends on one's commitment to helping fellow programmers.  I
>  >>>> believe if you don't want to answer the OP in this thread, that you're being
>  >>>> insufficiently helpful.  Shame on you if true, because that means you
> want to
>  >>>> enforce some petty and arbitrary limit rather than help.
>  >>
>  >>> Argumentum ad misericordiam
>  >>
>  >> Misidentification of fallacy.
>  >
>  > So you say.
>  >
>  >> I'd already made the point that it's relevant
>  >> to one of the groups to which the OP posted, namely clj.programmer.
>  >
>  > I know java language is very large but AFAIS os tools like nslookup
>  > are not part of it and the OP's question is not related to
>  > programming.
>  >
>  >>   The
>  >> "programmer" part of that means that it's not about the language as such, but
>  >> the skills needed to use it effectively.  I had argued that the question is
>  >> relevant there.
>  >
>  > The programmer part uses many skills, each of them can be classified
>  > in its related newsgroup. Nslookup is a os related problem. I may
>  > search in-depth at home and go to my os' newsgroup to ask the right
>  > people and not only to those that happen to be here.
>  >
>  >>   The appeal to sympathy is to show that the line was being
>  >> drawn arbitrarily fine.
>  >
>  > So you are basically saying that the sympathy proves something about
>  > the width of the line being drawn. That's basically ad misericordiam.
>
> I am saying that I already addressed the question of relevance,

Which I answered where/when you addressed it.

> and I think that you're being petty and mean to be so rigid.
>  >>   Nowhere am I suggesting that the discussion veer from
>  >> the subject of the newsgroup,  I only suggest that people not be such
>  >> namby-pamby nitpickers and be so doggedly exclusionary.
>  >
>  >> So while you show off your Latin quite nicely, it's irrelevant.
>  >
>  > That's the name of the sophism classification. I can't help it if it
>  > is in latin. Like the sophism, you are using now: ad hominem
>  > (dismissing what I said because of the use of latin [sic] supposedly chosen
>  > for showing off).
>
> Wow, good for you.  You parroted my helpful hint that I was using ad hominem.
>   That shows you paid attention when you read my post.  Congratulations on
> your ability to repeat what I said.

I did not bothered to correct you because you were not even wrong.
Simply insulting someone has nothing to do with 'ad hominem'.

>  >>> The reason why the people here are so helpful and the group is still
>  >>> alive is because some people do care enough to keep the discussions on
>  >>> topic.
>  >>
>  >> I don't know where your "here" is, but in this thread I'm arguing against the
>  >> people who are NOT being "so helpful".
>  >
>  > Here is comp.lang.c++ but I expect that OP posted in other helpful
>  > groups.
>
> Well, clj.programmer is a bit more tolerant than you.


Good for you. Then please stop polluting other groups.


>
>  >>> If it wasn't the case you wouldn't be able to ask your question here
>  >>> because everybody would be too busy chatting and exchanging reciepes.
>  >>> You would then have to ask elsewhere, which is exactely what the OP is
>  >>> invited to do.
>  >>
>  >> And also the OP is being invited EXACTLY to continue to post "here" for one
>  >> value of "here".
>  >
>  > Well, keep your "here" as comp.lang.java.programmer and please stop
>  > cross posting.
>
> Or what?  You'll call the Usenet Police?

I don't need to make threat or appeal to authority to make a point:
you are needlessly making noise in other groups.

--
Michael

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