Help or arrogance (Was: Re: How to overcome a boot-up endless loop?)

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Lisa Kachold wrote:
> Context is lost in email; often the process of tracking through
> incorrect assumptions via limited information provided in PLUG list
> email requires communication skills that might seem arrogant and
> short, however everyone happily jumps into help, even competing to get
> the best answer first. While some lack a certain touchy feely
> humanity, others can be petty, and still others downright blunt, but
> everyone accepts human limitations and enjoys the association found
> via PLUG interactions with even the most beginner of Nixites.
>
> So, Mike, I have to disagree here also; siding the Alan's appraisal.
>
>   
heh, color me blunt!

Yje way I am actually "set up" is typically "anti-social" (its a culture 
problem here in the US).
However, that does not stop me from trying to at least help, though I 
may sound terse
at times.