Re: service pack 1a

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From: Mike Hall (mike.hall.mail_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 01/16/05 

Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 15:45:27 -0500

... passes Vanguard a fresh coffee and pack of cigarettes.. download lighter
from www.ronson_firstime_everytime.com 

-- 
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
"Vanguard" <see_signature> wrote in message 
news:%235s8o1$%23EHA.1408@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> "Mike Hall" <mike.hall.mail@sympatico.ca> wrote in message 
> news:Oz7HSp%23%23EHA.3840@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Hope you guys spoon fed him with an e-mail too.. the chances of him 
>> returning to this thread are zero or less..
>
>
> <rant>
>
> I participate in the newsgroups and that's is where I continue the 
> discussion.  I don't take it offline unless it would be something harmful, 
> like disclosing how to easily corrupt the registry or otherwise render the 
> OS or an application useless or destructive.  I don't participate in 
> sensitive newsgroups, like rape, whistleblowing, warez, cracking, or such. 
> It is rare that any discussion in which I participate is so sensitive that 
> it must be taken offline via e-mail, so rare, in fact, that I don't recall 
> having to take a discussion offline.
>
> I have no inclination to actively reveal my true e-mail address to an 
> unknown recipient who might be a spammer posing as a user asking a 
> question (i.e., they aren't going to read or harvest the replies but 
> they'll get it if you e-mail them direct from their phishing post). 
> Spammers would much prefer YOU give them a usable e-mail address than have 
> to harvest a bunch of them where many are invalid, missing, or munged.  I 
> have no desire to make it easy for the phishing spammer.  The guy had 
> enough wherewithal to figure out how to post here, so he has the 
> wherewithal to read here.  The OP should expend *some* effort to acquire 
> the resolution; otherwise, they shouldn't bother to post in the first 
> place.  This is venue in which they requested help.
>
> The OP can request.  I can still say no.  It's still my choice, just like 
> it's their choice not to revisit here to check for answers.  Most excuses 
> don't wash as to why they demand to take the discussion offline via 
> e-mail.  "I'm too busy."  Uh huh, but not apparently too busy to read all 
> the e-mailed replies.  How much of a time differential is there between 
> reading the e-mails and revisiting the newsgroup?  If the poster doesn't 
> have time or willingness to expend some effort to review the possible 
> solutions for THEIR problem, why did they bother to expend the effort to 
> post?  "I don't know how to use usenet."  Then how'd they manage to submit 
> their post?  "My newsfeed is unreliable."  Then get a different one, like 
> Teranews for free ($3.95 one-time signup fee), or use a 
> webnews-for-dummies interface (Google Groups, Microsoft CDO), or use a 
> free NNTP server, like individual.net (text-only, no attachments) or 
> msnews.microsoft.com for Microsoft topics.  "Messages offering thanks, 
> jibes, or congratulations should not waste space on the newsgroups server, 
> so send those by e-mail".  I don't need applause; however, a return by the 
> OP indicating if a solution worked or not may help others that search on 
> the same problem (did it solve their problem, did it meet their need, was 
> it applicable, was there closure).
>
> If here is where they post then here is where I reply.  Personally I am 
> not into spoon-feeding lazy children (which is not necessarily measured by 
> age).  Oooh, aren't I cantankerous.  If you have the compunction to 
> spoon-feed them, go for it and enjoy.
>
> http://www.html-faq.com/faq.php?category=etiquette&fid=160
>
> http://www.newbie.net/tgos/newbie/rules.html, Usenet Guidelines, point #2.
> Share!  My replies rarely need to be privatized and, of course, everything 
> I say is of interest to the newsgroups.  (SPLAT!  I just blew up from a 
> super-inflated ego.)
>
> </rant>

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