I agree... I should not have requoted this message.

On January 15, Califchief (WTH is your real name? Not IPFreely, I hope)
wrote:

El Jefe replied:

Well, all too many folks have little to no idea how to post in a
courteous manner, which is to say to snip irrelevant text.

And then there are some who do know but think that being courteous is
somehow weak, wimpy, unmacho.

I've posted previously on this topic and been sneered at by fools who
think themselves macho and therefore excused from being courteous.

Regards,

Steve J

"Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive
wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people
rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the
unsophisticated deplore these formalities as 'empty, 'meaningless,' or
'dishonest,' and scorn to use them. No matter how 'pure' their motives,
they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best."
--Lazarus Long