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Question About Cat Behavior...
I know that cats hunch their backs, bristle their fur and spit when
they are threatened by other animals, but my kitten likes to hunch his back when I'm petting him. Why does he do this, if this is behavior normally associated with fear? TIA Writerosity Question About Cat Behavior... |
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On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:51:05 -0800, Writerosity multiposted the same
message yet again: Multiposting is *evil*. -- T.E.D. ) MST (Missouri University of Science and Technology) used to be UMR (University of Missouri - Rolla). |
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On Mar 7, 6:06*pm, Ted Davis wrote:
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:51:05 -0800, Writerosity multiposted the same message yet again: Multiposting is *evil*. It's important to me to get responses quickly, therefore I post the message several times on different newsgroups. I sent each one individually, so it's not spam. Writerosity -- T.E.D. ) MST (Missouri University of Science and Technology) used to be UMR (University of Missouri - Rolla). |
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Question About Cat Behavior...
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:59:57 -0700, Writerosity wrote:
On Mar 7, 6:06*pm, Ted Davis wrote: On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:51:05 -0800, Writerosity multiposted the same message yet again: Multiposting is *evil*. It's important to me to get responses quickly, therefore I post the message several times on different newsgroups. I sent each one individually, so it's not spam. So, getting quick reponses is more important than not ****ing off the very people who would respond? Think about this: most of us read a number of related groups, but not in the same order - some of us will find one copy first, some will find another. Now consider how someone feels after spending time and effort answering a question - sometimes involving research and careful thought, only to find that the next group they visit has an similar answer to another copy of your message that they didn't know about. Then the other person finds the message you posted - two people feel they have wasted their time and effort on someone who wasn't polite enough to indicate that he had posted the same question in other groups. Such people are often plonked by people who might be very helpful the next time you asked for assistance ... except you ****ed them off and they told their newsreader to ignore you. Best results are obtained by posting to the single most appropriate group - most of the best regulars read their groups a couple of times a day or more often. If it is *necessary* for some valid reason to post to multiple groups, the only acceptable way is to crosspost and set replies to the most appropriate group so most people will see all the responses (those that don't or can't read that group won't, of course). Of course, crossposting is also evil, but not as much so as multiposting. There is a reason many usenet providers block crossposting (it isn't practical to block multiposting). You have added yet another example to the growing feeling among many expert users that messages posted through groups.google.com should be filtered out on general principles because so many of them are posted by thoughtless people who haven't bothered to learn even basic usenet etiquette. -- T.E.D. ) MST (Missouri University of Science and Technology) used to be UMR (University of Missouri - Rolla). |
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