Is there anyone hears about "HireRight.com"?

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But amusing - in a sick, sad, world kind of way.

("Here" refers to comp.lang.c.)

There may be one, but he's a notorious self-proclaimed troll whose name I won't mention. (I haven't analyzed the number of his posts that purport to be "off topic" rebukes, but I think it's a large percentage.)

I don't believe anyone else here posts as many as 50% off-topic rebukes. I post a lot of such rebukes myself (and in many cases they're not so much rebukes as reminders, along with a suggestion for a more appropriate forum), but I also post a great many technical followups. Perhaps your 90% figure was a deliberate exaggeration; if not, it's just wrong.

Just to be clear, the 90% figure was not mine. I don't know who "Richard" is, but he isn't me.

One has to love the pedants in this ng. They are even pedants when denying the existence of such....

But in all seriousness, maybe 90% was a tad too high :-; But there are some I can think of where probably well over 50% of their posts are non helpful rebukes or grasping at a chance to strut at the expense of someone else.

But come on guys - it really doesn't need 10 people to post rebukes when some poor nOOb asks something wrong or in the wrong manner.

But all this has been said before. Time & time again.

I'm richard too! Or was that once? Err ...

Understood. Since I was addressing points both of you had made, it was simpler to piggyback onto your followup. Sorry if I implied otherwise.

Richard writes: [...]

You know perfectly well that Usenet is an asynchronous medium. It's very common for several people to post followups before any of the other followups have appeared.

Is the announcement "off-topic" a real off topic post?

No. By convention, meta-discussions about topicality are considered to be topical.

They are the only things that are.

So you can not say "off topic" on a post of "off topic".

Where is Turing?

dick wrote: [ snip ]

Italy. :-)

-- Joe Wright "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." --- Albert Einstein ---

Wearly?

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