X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:42:28 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: The Big Z cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Getting help with DJGPP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by delorie.com id g2J6hYb32044 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, The Big Z wrote: > Oh yes, the resident wingers are alive and well - if you dare ask an over > simple question, naïvely post in HTML, accidentally send a message more than > once, simply forget to put a period at the end of the sentence! or make any > number of silly, or innocent mistakes then be prepared to be slagged off! I think this is unfair. Please go through the archives of this news group, and I think you will see that almost every message, including those posted in HTML, Javascript, and what's not, gets replies with real help. Yes, it's a nuisance to filter out all that crud, but some of us go to great lengths to set up their news readers to do that, skip whatever is left after the filtering, and try to help anyway. Why do you ignore those who do that? The basic principle of ignoring messages for which there's no useful response goes both ways--those who ask the questions should exercise it as well as those who answer them. > I know - Sending this message makes me is no better then them, but I just > get so p****d off with their continuous attack on newbies, I just had to say > something. IMHO, it would be much more effective if you'd simply reply to those people who you feel were attacked, with help in solving their problems. That would set an example of what you consider to be civilized behavior without the side effect of a flame war of the kind we will probably witness in this thread. Personal example is always better than accusations. > END OF TOPIC Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way on the Internet. If you post something controversial, don't expect people to keep silence just because you said so.