Dear XenopusTex:

“responding/ interacting” means the following:

1. In your posts you don’t mention who it is you are responding/ interacting with. At first, on the other thread (and so far here) it was only me and you. So I assumed you were responding/ interacting with me. Later other people joined in and I was at a loss: the great majority of the time you didn’t mention the name of the respondent you were responding to. I didn’t know WHO you were communicating with.

If you start your posts with “(Nam)e”- that will make communication clearer but it will also be respectful. See, I for one, put my time and energy in formulating posts for you, responding with “Hi anita” or something like that would be you acknowledging that … well, that I exist, on your thread.

2. Often, you did not respond to any part of the content in my posts to you. It was as if I was talking to …. what I wrote to you, was it not intelligent enough or valid to elicit a response?

So respond to something in the content of a post written to you.

3. You get paid for the job that you do. I don’t get paid. If I was your wife and you were too busy to pay attention to me often enough, maybe I would say to myself: “but he is bringing in good money for me and my children…”

Your business does not make it any less pleasant when you don’t mention the name of the person you are writing to (how long does it take?) or when you don’t respond to the content of the post (don’t post until you are ready then), or – I suppose- when you are late to your dates (how often do you have dates? Might as well interrupt the judge for such a rarity!)

anita