carla wrote:
|| "Cubit" wrote in message
|| .com...
||| My feeling is that posts like this that share cheating plans are not
||| helpful.
|||
|| Ah. Well, allow me to apologize to the group for having made a post
|| that Cubit feels is unhelpful.
||

I disgree with his comment. I think your post was helpful because you were
talking about the choices you were going to make on a special occasion.
Sooner or later, all of us will be faced with the need to make such choices.

|| I do have a question for you, Cubit. Do you mean to say that you
|| believe they are not helpful to the poster, or that you believe they
|| are not helpful to the other members of the group?
||
|| If the latter, I really have nothing to say to that. If the former,
|| though, I would submit that the helpfulness of the post would vary
|| poster to poster. For many people, having some kind of
|| accountability, even to relative strangers, is of some value. In
|| addition, I think most people appreciate the value of formulating a
|| concrete strategy before going into a situation in which temptations
|| to go off plan are present, and then sticking to that strategy.
|| Perhaps you would have preferred if I had formulated my strategy in
|| my
|| own journal rather than in a newsgroup posting. If that is the case,
|| well, that's too bad.

I think the post could be helpful to the OP and to other members.