XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Mike Easter  wrote:   
   > Sump wrote:   
   [...]   
   > > Then perhaps users of sarcasm should reduce their quality of levity   
   > > so that all can understand.   
   >   
   > My philosophy is that if a transmission doesn't work properly, to look   
   > at the whole package, not just one end or the other or what is in between.   
   >   
   > Just like, if a joke doesn't work/ has to be explained/ something went   
   > wrong somewhere.  The comedian, the audience, the mood of the room.   
   >   
   > "Don't you get it?" is the 'wrong' question.  The question is 'what went   
   > wrong?'   
      
     Exactly. Blaming either party is the wrong thing to do, as you say,   
   same thing as with a joke.   
      
     Just recently, there was another case of sarchasm in the Linux/   
   Windows/Mac groups, different sender.   
      
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