Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 02/15/06 19:20

"Greg N." <yodel_dodel@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> That you did not present your real problem.
>
> I think I did.

You can keep thinking that way, but it won't help you.

>>>You tell me. You're the smart one around here.
>> I find it mildly disguisting that you make nasty notes about a
>> named person and hide yourself under an incomplete name.
>
> Come on, there is more information about me on the web than about
> most other netcitizens. I'm not hiding at all, and you _know_
> that.

I know that you are using a protocol-incorrect From field; "Greg N."
cannot be your full name. Whether you indirectly reveal your identity
is immaterial.

> I thought I described my problem very accurately, so that no URL
> was required.

People generally ask for help when they expect that someone else knows
better the issue at hand. Then it is reasonable to assume that if
others ask for further information, they _know_ that more information
is needed.

> All I have is a compund noun in German that I want Google to treat
> both parts of separately. Do you really need an URL for such a
> simple question?

No, but you would have needed to post it. Whether you believe it or
not, I know the topic better than you, and I know that the problem
cannot be solved in such an abstract form and in isoltation.

> But if you insist, ok. It is the site in my sig below.

Sigs are for fun and for "nice to know" stuff. Don't rely on sigs in
any way. For all that you can know, I may have configured my newsreader
to suppress sigs, since they are mostly just boring or worse. And
mentioning a site isn't sufficient; you haven't told _how_ the issue
would be relevant there.

> And it is
> not the word "Kindergarten" but, for instance, "Motorradreisen".

"For instance"? Was there _any_ other word you worried about?
(And you probably worried about a split to main components only, not to
"Motor", "Rad", and "Reisen". So it _was_ rather specific.)

> By now, I have changed it in ways suggested here by others.

That's your prerogative. You can mistype words in a misguided attempt
at boosting your page in Google. After all, Usenet is an almost
infinite supply of wrong advice, especially to those who fail to
formulate their questions reasonably even after continued attempts at
helping them.

Now your main heading says you don't care about elementary rules of
orthography of the language you are writing in. Believe it or not, the
trick _is_ visible, even on graphic browsers.

> You may say, this is all insulting and rude,

No, this time you just exercised pointless babbling.

> and you may plonk me.

That's irrelevant to you, actually; you seem to be destined to use only
the advice that looks pleasant to you.

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