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   Nobody forces anybody to read anybody else's posts on USENET. The idea   
   USENET posts must conform to some standard is nothing but a ridiculous   
   troll. You can cope with it or you can ignore it.   
      
   A netcop wannabe troll starved for attention...   
      
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   Bertrand Sindri  wrote:   
      
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   > From: Bertrand Sindri    
   > Newsgroups: sci.electronics.basics   
   > Subject: Re: Use resistor instead of regulator?   
   > Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:30:09 +0000 (UTC)   
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   > amdx  wrote:   
   >> On 2/11/2021 11:47 AM, John Doe wrote:   
   >>> It takes a two syllable voice command... "on top".   
   >>>   
   >>> Voice-activated scripting is a whole new world for someone who   
   >>> enjoys systemwide macros in windows.   
   >>   
   >> Ok, so you can do it easily, but why do you do it?   
   >   
   > The appearance on this end of "why" looks to be: "to be irritating".   
   >   
   >> What do you think you are doing to the person who's header you put in   
   >> the body of the post.   
   >   
   > The appearance given out, when the pattern happens, is that the Mr Hyde   
   > personality half of Mr Doe does it for the purpose of irritation of the   
   > poster to which Mr Doe has chosen to "troll".   
   >   
   >> I just want to understand what advantage you get from this act.   
   >   
   > There seems to be no advantage.  Other than to overtely be irritating.   
   >   
   >> Is it something I should start doing when I'm disagree with a poster?   
   >>   
   >> And should I top post when I do it?   
   >>   
   >> Or, am I over thinking this and you can't write a macro to do a   
   >> proper post with a quote?   
   >   
   > Except that when Mr Doe is operating from his Dr Jeckyl personality   
   > half, he is quite capable of proper quoting, quote trimming, avoiding   
   > quoting headers, and bottom posting.  Implying he can write a macro to   
   > do a proper post.   
   >   
   > There are at least two explanations for this:   
   >   
   > One - Mr Doe has a proper voice activated macro that can quote properly   
   > and bottom post -- which implies that the header quoting top posting Mr   
   > Hyde personality is a deliberate choice on his part.   
   >   
   > Two - Mr Doe only uses his voice activated macro when trolling.  Which   
   > is, again, a deliberate choice on his part when the Mr Hyde personality   
   > is activated.   
   >   
   > Both boil down to deliberate choices on Mr Doe's part.   
   >   
   > So I submit that he deliberatly chooses the top posting, header   
   > quoting, Mr Hyde version to be irritating to the person to which he is   
   > responding.   
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