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Re: Nslookup

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On 05/19/2011 03:42 AM, Michael Doubez wrote:
> On 19 mai, 00:26, Lew<no...@lewscanon.com>  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, 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 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.

>>> 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.

>>> 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?

You're being mean and that's not nice.  Shame on you!

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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  Re: Nslookup "Fred Zwarts" <F.Zwarts@KVI.nl> - 2011-05-16 14:56 +0200
    Re: Nslookup Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-16 13:22 -0400
      Re: Nslookup red floyd <redfloyd@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 16:06 -0700
        Re: Nslookup Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-16 21:15 -0400
          Re: Nslookup bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2011-05-18 09:38 +0100
            Re: Nslookup Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-18 13:13 -0400
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                Re: Nslookup Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-18 18:26 -0400
                Re: Nslookup thingamabob <thingamabob117@gmai1.c0m> - 2011-05-19 01:27 -0400
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                Re: Nslookup Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-19 13:45 -0400
                Re: Nslookup thingamabob <thingamabob117@gmai1.c0m> - 2011-05-19 14:04 -0400
                Re: Nslookup dougatmilmacdotcom@example.com (Doug Miller) - 2011-05-19 18:31 +0000
                Re: Nslookup thingamabob <thingamabob117@gmai1.c0m> - 2011-05-19 14:45 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-19 21:43 -0400
                Re: Nslookup thingamabob <thingamabob117@gmai1.c0m> - 2011-05-20 00:07 -0400
                Re: Nslookup The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-19 11:19 +0100
                Re: Nslookup Michael Doubez <michael.doubez@free.fr> - 2011-05-19 00:42 -0700
                Re: Nslookup Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-19 10:03 -0400
                Re: Nslookup thingamabob <thingamabob117@gmai1.c0m> - 2011-05-19 12:44 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-19 10:08 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Michael Doubez <michael.doubez@free.fr> - 2011-05-20 00:55 -0700
              Re: Nslookup bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2011-05-19 09:33 +0100
                Re: Nslookup The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-19 11:21 +0100
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                Re: Nslookup Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-17 12:32 -0400
              Re: Nslookup Bill B <me@privacy.net> - 2011-05-17 07:29 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-17 08:18 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Bill B <me@privacy.net> - 2011-05-17 08:30 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-17 10:31 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Bill B <me@privacy.net> - 2011-05-17 11:10 -0400
                Re: Nslookup The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-17 16:20 +0100
                Re: Nslookup Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-17 12:31 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Tim Streater <timstreater@waitrose.com> - 2011-05-17 17:55 +0100
                Re: Nslookup The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-17 14:08 +0100
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