Tom Lake wrote:

I won't help because you did not craft your subject line
properly such that I had at least SOME IDEA WHAT YOU
NEEDED HELP WITH.

You insult the reader by posting messages with such a vaccuous
subject line.

The message is short enough so it doesn't take much reading
to know the help the OP needs.

The OP doesn't deserve his posts to be read if his subject line is
completely useless and he forces *everyone* to read the post just to
know something about his problem.

Why are you so impatient? If people need help, I help them
if I can. I don't refuse to help them if they haven't Googled
for an answer or read the manual.

This has got nothing to do with how much they've first tried to help
themselves.

It's about common courtesy, about proper usenet etiquette, about respect
for usenet readers.

If someone doesn't take even a few seconds to formulate a descriptive
subject line, then they are telling me that they want me to take MY TIME
to read their post just to see if I want to, or can respond.

Even more - in this case not only are you defending improper usenet
posting style, but you are also defending a post that was way-off-topic
for this newsgroup.

If you don't want to answer then don't but there's no need to
insult people who ask a simple question. Your "answer" was
more insulting than the question.

I was insulting the way they posted the question.

Usenet would be useless if everyone always used subject lines like
"Please help me!" or "I've got a problem!" or "Can anyone answer this
question!". It's no crime to tell people to formulate descriptive and
USEFUL subject lines with the 80 or so characters they have to work
with. What do you have against that?

And if you ask me, I do think that the nature of the question deserves
the OP to be insulted. What did their question have anything to do with
Intel? It was a nonsense question in the first place - it has no
definative answer.