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- From: sue@netcom.com (Sue Miller)
- Subject: Re: Mercury fillings and so on
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.220524.10082@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <17481@pitt.UUCP> <1992Nov16.204738.9931@netcom.com> <17495@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:05:24 GMT
- Lines: 66
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- THIS PART IS NOT ABOUT MERCURY FILLINGS:
-
- Gordon Banks writes:
- > I wrote:
- >>
- >>You're giving the impression that you don't read very well. I
- >>didn't specify anything. I asked a favor, and it certainly
- >>wasn't an unreasonable one.
- >>
- >I suppose I thought it was an unreasonable one. We have too much
- >of this whining when the free information people give doesn't
- >come in the form you want. No one is entitled to any free
- >information here. If you don't like someone's post, then
- >why not just skip it instead of flaming them? I just thought
- >it was rude to yell at Dave for "not answering the question",
- >so, true to form, I was rude back. Dave's too much a gentlemen
- >to flame back.
-
- It may have been true to form for your post to be "rude" back,
- but I still reject your claim that I was rude and inflammatory
- in the first place. I challenge you to find any name-calling
- or other rude flame-like behavior in my original posting.
- I do not like to flame people who are attempting to provide helpful
- information. I only suggested that none of us attempt to read minds for free.
-
- You are certainly entitled to feel that you are the sci.med cop
- and decide whether or not I am not allowed to make such suggestions,
- but I think you've been on usenet long enough now to realize that
- your own posting behavior will set a better example than your beliefs
- about what should be posted here.
-
- I do like your "Dave's too much a gentleman to flame back."
- Perhaps he is, but then again, perhaps he wasn't offended and didn't
- feel a need to flame me in return. Unless he says something, I
- don't see why I need to believe that you speak for him.
-
- >
- >>
- >>If you've got one of those versions of rn that require more lines
- >>of followup than quoted text, you needn't send blank lines in order to
- >>defeat it. Hint: the filter counts lines that begin with
- >>">" characters.
- >
- >Hitting extra <CR>s is easier than globally replacing all the > with
- >: or |.
- >
-
- Not if you have the right macro it isn't. If you want it, let
- me know.
-
-
- NOW, BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING:
-
- I used to have a mouthful of mercury amalgam fillings. Over the last
- few years almost all of them have been replaced with crowns,
- inlays, onlays, etc. They look beautiful. I hate them.
- They are so much more sensitive now, and I can't eat a lot of
- crunchy foods any more. If I'd known that I wouldn't have
- let the dentist talk me into it. The crowns were not an option
- but the inlays/onlays were - and they cost a fortune.
-
- Just a warning for all those people who have dentists trying
- to talk them into a cosmetic upgrade when they have to replace
- aging amalgam fillings.
-
-