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 Message 2441 
 Stephen Sprunk to Adam H. Kerman 
 Re: Drawbar Pull & Tractive Effort?? 
 31 Mar 14 13:22:54 
 
From: stephen@sprunk.org

On 31-Mar-14 13:16, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Stephen Sprunk  wrote:
>> On 31-Mar-14 11:42, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>> Stephen, it's really special that your search worked for you,
>>
>> It would have worked for you too, if you bothered trying.
>
> You sure do have a reading comprehension problem. I just stated that
> I searched for the Message-ID in Google Groups and got nothing.

I searched for the Subject and the original thread was the first hit;
that's how I found the Message-ID in the first place!

>> I was unaware Google Groups has now screwed up even searching by
>> Message-ID, which used to work.
>
> There are a great many things of which you aren't aware.

I'm sure.

> What you are truly unaware of is how searching a database works, and
> how poorly it functions when the indexes aren't built and maintained.

I'm well aware of that, actually.

I doubt this particular problem has much to do with indexes, though.

> Since you're being an asshole,

I was actually trying to be helpful, but you seem to have a compulsive
need to argue with me, so who's the asshole?

> the rest snipped unread.

You complain you don't have the original text, and then when I provide
the original text, you throw a tantrum and ignore it.  How mature.

S

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