Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:06:23 -0600 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:06:23 +0000 From: lipska the kat User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120410 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Need clarification on Object.equals. References: <909022a2-ead4-45e6-9f43-79b5013e04ee@googlegroups.com> <67da22eb-42d8-40bf-b172-9aac1eef268e@googlegroups.com> <50d13174$0$283$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <-vKdnV0vgsl4CUzNnZ2dnUVZ8sOdnZ2d@bt.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-XlOxNCfFFtf6LJDDSHjiUnVNx7DKWmpPqRgAIYe9Qzia8HkcD6ttd/5fQoqCQlfLMZI5RdcdZGh8SiN!zuRp1pi5eaKYzlUWzgT9FgJjVOUE5H32pJzTAnJ3cd6ArwQfG0Nt7xQfjDUsSx036QX3GmMIPcU= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2462 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:20519 On 19/12/12 11:22, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > On 12/19/2012 2:20 AM, lipska the kat wrote: > ... >> I've noticed this a lot in various newsgroups that I have been >> frequenting of late. People who are regular contributors get the idea >> that foo.bar.baz newsgroup is their private domain and anyone who has >> the temerity to post a question that doesn't meet their exacting >> standards get flamed and scolded and told to stop whining. >> >> I get told off but I have the skin of a Rhino and none of you silly >> little jibes affect me or my life in any way whatsoever. Not everyone is >> so unaffected. > ... > > I strongly agree with this, except I would have preferred "Some people > who are regular contributors ...". Concur, my mistake. lipska -- Lipska the KatŠ: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun