Sending Out An SOS

Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@m> wrote:
> Frank Slootweg writes:
>
> > Exactly which part(s) of the OP's "What if you break a leg out on the
> > trail? What will happen to you if nobody knows where to find you?"
> > didn't you understand? Something is not "being suckered in" just because
> > *you* don't need it.
>
> Nobody needs it. There are zero-cost alternatives to this service that
> work just as well and are at least as convenient, if not more.

For the record: I was not implying that there is a need for the OP's
'service'. Quite the contrary: In my very first response I described
problems with it, which you also mentioned in your other response (with
which I fully agree). What I was objecting to was EvelynVogtGamble's
denial that her method would not work in scenarios where there simply
was no third party at all (i.e. also no "police", "hospital") to help.

Frank Slootweg wrote:


>>Highly unlikely, in any city large enough to support an
>>opera company! (In any case, we all have to die sometime,
>>and I'm sure family and friends would get the message if I
>>didn't return as scheduled, and had not so-informed them.)
>
>
> Sigh! The "you" in my last (quoted) sentence is obviously the generic
> you, i.e. not you personally. (Clue: "everybody").

Really? You WERE replying to my post, after all.
>
>>There are always people willing to relieve you of your
>>money, selling "essential" products for which the need is
>>non-existent (or at best slight). I just choose not to be
>>suckered in.
>
>
> Exactly which part(s) of the OP's "What if you break a leg out on the
> trail? What will happen to you if nobody knows where to find you?"
> didn't you understand? Something is not "being suckered in" just because
> *you* don't need it.

Obviously you're one of the suckers who'll BUY that sort of
expensive junk. "A fool and his money are soon parted." I
refuse to waste any more time with this idiotic exchange.
(P-L-O-N-K!)

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop@> wrote:
>
> Frank Slootweg wrote:
>
> >>Highly unlikely, in any city large enough to support an
> >>opera company! (In any case, we all have to die sometime,
> >>and I'm sure family and friends would get the message if I
> >>didn't return as scheduled, and had not so-informed them.)
> >
> > Sigh! The "you" in my last (quoted) sentence is obviously the generic
> > you, i.e. not you personally. (Clue: "everybody").
>
> Really? You WERE replying to my post, after all.
> >
> >>There are always people willing to relieve you of your
> >>money, selling "essential" products for which the need is
> >>non-existent (or at best slight). I just choose not to be
> >>suckered in.
> >
> > Exactly which part(s) of the OP's "What if you break a leg out on the
> > trail? What will happen to you if nobody knows where to find you?"
> > didn't you understand? Something is not "being suckered in" just because
> > *you* don't need it.
>
> Obviously you're one of the suckers who'll BUY that sort of
> expensive junk. "A fool and his money are soon parted."

As noted before, reading is not one of your strong points, is it? In
my *very first* response in this thread, i.e. before you came into the
picture, I already said that the OP's service *could* not work for me/us
and that I would continue to use other means, so it is *impossible* for
me to be "suckered in". But don't let the facts/reality/<whatever> get
in the way of your rambling.

> I refuse to waste any more time with this idiotic exchange.

At least we can agree on the latter part.

> (P-L-O-N-K!)

I am *SO* hurt!

nitram <me@> wrote:
> On 07 May 2005 10:54:49 GMT, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> > Free clue: See the Newsgroups: line. Guess what "australia+nz" means?
> >Hint: It doesn't mean "Europe".
>
> Perhaps the result of cross posting to
> .australia+nz,rec.boats.paddle,rec.trave l.europe,.misc

You don't say! :-) I.e. *of course* it is the result of crossposting.

EvelynVogtGamble reads#####is subscribed to .europe. (As is
clear from my postings in this thread, or else Google Groups would
tell,) I am subscribed to .australia+nz, so it's really not
rocket science to figure out why "neither name has appeared on rte
before" (where one of "neither" is me).

nitram <me@> wrote:
> On 07 May 2005 12:08:43 GMT, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> >nitram <me@> wrote:
> >> On 07 May 2005 10:54:49 GMT, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Free clue: See the Newsgroups: line. Guess what "australia+nz" means?
> >> >Hint: It doesn't mean "Europe".
> >>
> >> Perhaps the result of cross posting to
> >> .australia+nz,rec.boats.paddle,rec.trave l.europe,.misc
> >
> > You don't say! :-) I.e. *of course* it is the result of crossposting.
> >
> > EvelynVogtGamble reads#####is subscribed to .europe. (As is
> >clear from my postings in this thread, or else Google Groups would
> >tell,) I am subscribed to .australia+nz, so it's really not
> >rocket science to figure out why "neither name has appeared on rte
> >before" (where one of "neither" is me).
>
> So why hand out free clues?

Because with them it's apparently already hard enough? Because I'm a
nice guy?