Re: Segmentation fault

CBFalconer wrote:
Keith Thompson wrote:
... snip ...
Incidentally, you seem to be approximately the fifth person to
point out that s is uninitialized. The first post to mention
this was posted about 9 hours before yours. And yes, that post
did arrive on your server; you and I use the same one.

However my reader shows posts in order of date/time, so the first
thing I read is the original question. I reply, and then find
other answers.

Yes, and that is precisely what he is complaining about. You shouldn't waste other people's time by posting responses that duplicate things someone else has already pointed out. In addition to wasting our time, it also make you look as though you're too stupid to use your newsreader properly. I seriously considered replacing "you look as though" with "it clear that". However, I think this has more to do with stubborn selfishness than with stupidity.

According to your message headers, you're using Mozilla, which is quite capable of letting you read other people's responses to a given message before sending your own. It isn't even necessary to read all the messages in the newsgroup - Mozilla is quite capable of displaying a thread as a tree, so you can easily read all of the responses to one message before reading any other messages on that same thread.
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: A mitvah?
    ... >> "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, ... > Your first post here sounded as if you want *us* to do all the ... > him from your city. ... > will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out ...
    (alt.marketing.online.ebay)
  • Re: Good shareware compiler for C?
    ... the language, is allowed to insist on acting as if navia-C were ... isn't, or he's just too stupid to recognize the difference; ... his say, that people arguing for topicality are bigots, and so forth. ... But it's the first post that matters, ...
    (comp.lang.c)
  • Re: Good shareware compiler for C?
    ... is allowed to insist on acting as if navia-C were ... isn't, or he's just too stupid to recognize the difference; ... his say, that people arguing for topicality are bigots, and so forth. ... threads beyond the first post. ...
    (comp.lang.c)
  • Re: Short questionnaire about religious debate on the newsgroup
    ... Jeremiah Harbottle wrote: ... As mentioned in the first post, please do not reply to people's ... responses in this way - the purpose of this thread is not to retread the ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)
  • Re: Earthcam help
    ... The first post I posted and subsequent reply by yourself went ... newsgroups hoping for a reply from someone. ... your frustrations in finding responses would be significantly reduced by ... crossposts because of the unnecessary load crossposts add to the newsgroup ...
    (microsoft.public.pocketpc.phone_edition)