From: Tudor Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Ideas for DJGPP. Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 21:06:45 -0800 Organization: Communications Accesibles Montreal Lines: 39 Message-ID: <32A8FB65.7A7@cam.org> References: Reply-To: tudor AT cam DOT org NNTP-Posting-Host: dynppp-128.hip.cam.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp 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... -- tudor 'at' cam 'dot' com http://www.cam.org/~tudor -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d(-)@>-- s-()>+:(+)>- a--- C+(++)>+++>$ ULC(+)@>++++ P+(+)>++++>$ L(+)>+++++>$ E-(--)?>++ W++(++)>+++>$ N(+)@>+++ o(-)?>+ K---(----)?>- w(---)@>-- !O--(----)>++ !M(+)>- V--(-)?>-- PS--(-)?>+++ !PE(+)>- Y(+)>++>$ PGP+(++)>++++>$ t---(+++)@>+++ !5(-)>-- X++(+++)>$>++++ R+()>+++>$ tv(+)@>++ b+(++)?>+++ DI-(--)?>--- !D(+)>+++ G++(+)@ e-()>++++>$ h(--)?>++ !r(--)?>+++ !y(--)>+++++@ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------