Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/07/08:03:43
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Elliott Oti wrote:
>
> > I think newbies who ask for help would be much better off getting it,
> > than being told off.
>
> You don't *really* mean that, do you? Did you ever see somebody on this
> news group refusing help to a newbie, even if the answer is written on
> one of the readme's loud and clear? I think no newbie can boast that
> he/she was being told off by somebody here, ever.
>
> Let me remind you: this thread was born when I asked what confuses newbies
> in DJGPP, and then, in a moment of bad judgement, passed an innocent joke
> about the reply I got. Maybe jokes is too much for that subject, and I
> doubt if I could ever do anything to make people less confused, but this
> cerainly doesn't change in any way the help which is offered here for
> everybody.
>
> > No flame wars please. That was just my opinion.
>
> Same here.
Wow.I never relized what an innocent affirmatin could produce in the
hands of a computer on a newsgroup...
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