Mailarchives ("Rude Is as Rude Does.....")

I agree with Richard Bowman! I subscribed to this list in the hopes of "learning from the masters". I am a retired army colonel, and currently a math teacher with an engineering degree and two masters degrees. I do not consider myself "stupid", as some of you might, if I ask some very simple questions that are hard to find answers to in a less-than-satisfactory manual. I was also hoping to find some "neat ideas" that have been tried out by others with similar interests to mine.

What I have found is a group composed of way too many cynical, snooty "geeks"! While I enjoyed the recent discussion about the cube root of 64 calculation, I mostly read the messages now just to see how rude some of you can be to others. Some of the subscribers are obviously young people with an interest and curiosity beyond the norm of their peers. Those of you who answer their questions with "RTFM", or other such rude remarks ought to be ashamed. You ought to be doubly ashamed if you are an educator. Is that how you answer questions in class? If so, I bet you don't get too many questions asked of you any more! (You probably thought it was because you were such a great teacher, I bet).

I'm going to hold off for a day or so before I dig up that message on how to unsubscribe, just so I can read the litany of harangues I'm sure to get from this message. (Sorry I've gummed up your bandwitdth with another useless message, but some of you really need to "get a life"!) Hey, it least this useless message wasn't about SPORTS!!!! (Perish the thought!)