I was not continuing this on cypherpunks, but Mr. Pozkanzer seems to have an insistance on posting bits of private mail, so I suppose I should return the compliment. I have no interest in continuing this past this message. I suspect everyone is extremely bored already. Jef Poskanzer says:
And I still fail to see how my pointing out that you are confused can reasonably be called an "insult".
You said:
That would have been a stupid request to make. Thanks for the compliment.
Implying that myself and the others answering your request were somehow being insulting -- when we were simply answering a question in good faith.
It's insulting to demonstrate that you are bullshitting, eh? Sure Perry.
Refering to a stranger who's just tried to give you some help as a "bullshitter" is not, I hope, what your parents taught you about good manners.
Not at all, Perry. It's only when a loudmouth gives *incorrect* answers multiple times that I start getting pissed.
Would you like being called a loudmouth? Do you, say, call your mother a loudmouth when you meet her? Would you go up to a stranger under most circumstances and say "you're a loudmouth"? Would you expect that the stranger would take it as a friendly statement? You have no sense of how to behave around your fellow human beings, Mr. Pozkanzer. Perry