On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:39:33 GMT, Mary Pegg
> wrote:

>Andy Turner wrote:
>> Self-centredness is having your head so much up your own arse that you
>> believe that the preferences of you and others are the only
>> preferences that must be allowed and that they must be forced on those
>> who have different preferences.
>
>Nobody's forcing anybody to do anything.

Not successfully anyway, but people attempt to. Generally, when their
requests go ignored, they seem to stomp their feet and go for the
killfile.


>Least of all post to, or read, uk.misc. However those that choose to
>post to uk.misc are requested to abide by the norms of the group.

Here's a question. When a message is cross-posted (as this thread is),
between groups, which group's standards should apply?


andyt