Posted by jane d on March 14, 2003, at 0:28:35
In reply to Re: Book post response, posted by Dr. Bob on March 13, 2003, at 10:38:20
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> I do try not to keep hounding the same people...
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> BobBob,
The overall impression your standard follow up question for people who don't link to Amazon gives is perhaps a bit forceful. As I said to st james above, sometimes I am over literal, happily so, so I assume that you mean just what your words say:
"But I don't mean to be pushy. Did you deliberately not use it to link to Amazon? If so, I'd be interested in why, over at Psycho-Babble Administration:"
- that you're interested in why someone doesn't use the feature more than you are in correcting them. If this isn't true the rest of this post is irrelevant.Your question might be less likely to be interpreted as a criticism of the specific poster if it weren't personalized. Maybe something like "I post this whenever someone refers to a book to make sure everyone knows about this wonderful linking feature." "I would like feedback from anyone who doesn't choose to use this, etc, etc." I'm sure this breaks all sorts of rules of good writing which I clearly never quite mastered. Probably one of the ones about making your point less forceful but that might be a good thing here.
Jane, who no longer has any idea what she started out to say
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