Ed Gerck wrote:
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grenville armitage wrote:
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and thus have gained entry to your circle of
people-worth-talking-with.
Solely by what you wrote, my point exactly.
Actually, your point appeared to be that you'd respond to a
previously-unknown correspondent who wrote _about something you'd
previously written_ (and I quote):
If someone sends me a message asking for my comment
because they read some other comment I wrote, do I really
care who that someone is... or who they know?
You yourself have identified the criteria 'they read some other comment
I wrote', not just "they wrote something interesting". I observe
that the former criteria qualifies as a variant of "...who they know".
FWIW.
cheers,
gja
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Grenville Armitage
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