Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:09:23 +0100
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: e DOT oti AT stud DOT warande DOT ruu DOT nl (Elliott Oti)
Subject: Re: Ideas for DJGPP.
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

>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.


That is true and if I implied otherwise I apologise.


>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. 

You are the unofficial djgpp helpdesk ( even if you didn't ask for it :)
and what you say tends to get taken literally. Mea culpa.

Elliott