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Clarification of Question by googel-ga on 24 Oct 2002 21:24 PDT

Re. Question ID: 86361

Sorry to answer here and make you have to pay another $2, but I can't
respond under the original question as you did not make another
'clarification request' there.

When you requested clarification, you didn't actually ask me anything
- you just told me that the guarantee wasn't ready yet. That's why I
made just a general comment about how I didn't think you were trying
to scam people, but I thought I should check - I didn't know what else
to say because you didn't seem to have asked me anything. I apologise
if I missed the question! If there was something further you needed to
ask me, could you please ask for further clarification?

Thanks - and sorry for the confusion
shananigans-ga

Your answer bought me much more than the lost $2.
Thank you,
and take care

googel,

shananigans is most likely not on-line right now to answer questions.
Instead of posting this question repeatedly, just hang out for the
next 24 hours. Unless shananigans is suddenly out of the country on
secret government business, I guarantee they will find this question
and get back to you.

aceresearcher

no problem.

Hello googel-ga,
Usually there is no need to start a new question to finish off
clarification responses from an older question. Just post an answer
clarification to the old Question ID: 86361. Researchers receive
notification emails for this. (saves you the cost of posting the
question)

However if you post a pre-answer clarification or a comment,
researchers currently do not receive email clarification for these,
but it is possible to tell when the question has been modified.
(requesting answer clarifications automatically send email
notification to the researcher concerned).

But I realise in this case, you may want to award a new $2 question to
shananigans-ga for the extra efforts involved.
Kind regards lot-ga