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Message: [QUOTE="Kenny McCormack, post: 2419600"] Meta-discussion follows. The problem with Usenet (as with the world at large) is that 75% of the traffic is newbies (stupidly) asserting things that are clearly wrong, such as that (for example), . and -> mean the same thing (which was the implicit subtext of the original post). So, we spend a lot of time correcting them. However, with the remaining 25%, which is (or should be - but please accept this for the sake of discussion) reasonably well-informed people saying reasonably well-informed things, the problem is that we spend 90% of our time convincing each other that we're not in the 75%. That the default assumption is that we are (since most of the posters, taken as a group, are) is what led to the above misunderstanding. [/QUOTE]