No, you didn't.

Yes I did. I answered the question on 8/8 at 2:52 pm. Thusly:

Ironically, in this particular instance, you weren't even contributing anything. You were asking for a clarification. Which means you have artificially limited the audience to whom your question was posed, reducing the chances of you getting an answer. If "nrp" saw this thread in r.a.student, he'll never see your question, and won't answer it.
That is exactly the reason for stripping it. If I didn't strip it, somebody might see the post in r.a.s and answer it there, and I won't see the answer (at least if he posts from a lame newsreader). Now -that- would be silly.

You now say:
But you have invented an absurd
justification for putting up with your chosen newsreader's behavior.

I have given =no= justification for doing so. I do not feel that I need
to justify my choice of software to anybody in the Usenet community.

This whole thread could have been avoided if you'd simply been up front and
admitted that your behavior is entirely because of the way Mozilla's
newsreader works.

This entire thread could have been avoided had you not taken issue with
my posting style, which has nothing to do with the way =my= newsreader
works, but rather, with the fact that not all newsreaders work the same
way regarding crossposts. I don't make assumptions about other people's
software is or what it should do, but I am cognizant of the fact that
some of them do not "properly" respect headers. For that reason, I
attempt to manually ensure that I do not ask a question in a place where
I am likely to not hear the response (or the thunderstorm that may
result), so I sometimes manually strip those newsgroups when I believe
it to be the best thing to do, or advise that I won't see responses when
I think it's better to crosspost anyway.

Just explain that your newsreader is stupid, and leave
it at that.

My newsreader is stupid. Feel better?

Jose
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