[plug] Netmeeting

[Mike Holland]

Oh dear, another of the "too easily offended".
Bob, with all your years of computer experience, you might have noticed
that its very easy to mis-read someones tone in e-mail. In fact those who
choose to, find it very easy to take offense.
   My initial impression of your original post, and I stress that it was
merely an impression, was that it was rushed off very quickly by someone
who was too lazy to use a search engine, let alone bother to formulate
readable sentences. Of course, we all have our off days, but sometimes
people need to be picked up on those things.
  I would have been very wrong in guessing that it was written by someone
new to the 'net. Please take your macho attitude to aus.invest where souls
like you happily brag about their income and belittle others. Then please
come back when you have vented. Though I
doubt your comments like "pissed Yar smart arse prick" will be welcome
anywhere much. You are giving us oldies a bad name.

   And finally, let me add that there was nothing _good_ about programming
6502 assembler ;)   ( e.g. 8 bit stack pointer IIRC)

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Emerge wrote:

> Well for somebody who thinks I'm incoherent and illiterate you seem to have
> deciphered the message pretty well.
>  Microsoft NetMeeting has been around for as long time obviously longer than
> you if your going to be a smart arse don't bother answering the question .
> I would have thought that the people in this group would get  a little sick
> of highly detailed questions when it must be quite obvious to all that there
> are very few ways of providing such a service to other computers in a local
> area network i.e IP-masquerading
> 
> I am a new user of Linux and have placed many question with this group and
> nobody has had reason to complain or insult me regarding the clarity of the
> questions.
> I am 44 years old and have been into (Oh sorry programming, using ,playing
> with ) computers for 25 years and have probably forgot more than you will
> ever know like the good old days of  code like  6502 assembler and so on I
> suppose you never heard of that either .
> I develop database systems that provide me with a reasonable income.
> I own and run a mechanical workshop and I own run a drilling company here in
> the goldfields how much do you make.
> 
> I don't care if you don't mean to be nasty but let me tell you Mate I'm
> pissed Yar smart arse prick.
> Linux is not the only system on the planet.
> Im sorry the rest of the group has to see this message it is directed at
> Peter Wright only.
> Regards Bob Andrews.
> P.S anybody can use a spell checker.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Wright" <pete at cygnus.uwa.edu.au>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 6:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [plug] Netmeeting
> 
> 
> >
> > Hi, um, Linux...
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 09:19:57PM -0700, Linux wrote:
> > > Hi all i have two 98 comps hanging of my linux box everthing works
> > > fine but nobody can call me on netmeeting.  I can call them they can
> > > here my audio and video but i can not here them or recieve there
> > > video any ideas .  thanks.
> >
> > Just a few minor tips -
> >
> > I don't know if you're really illiterate or just incoherent[*], but
> > you're sounding that way ;-). Try to explain yourself in more detail -
> > nobody can help you if they don't understand what you're talking
> > about.
> >
> > I mean, "two 98 comps hanging of my linux box" - that doesn't really
> > help to clarify things at all. I can make an educated guess that
> > you're using IP-masquerading on your Linux box to provide internet
> > access for your two window machines, but it could mean a lot of other
> > things.
> >
> > Also, some others might know what "netmeeting" is, but I don't - never
> > heard of it. A Windows software package providing some sort of network
> > communication facility?
> >
> > Pete.
> >
> > [*] I don't mean this in a nasty way. Really. It's just that if you
> > want people to take their time to help you, you need to take your time
> > to help them (understand your problem). Your above message wasn't too
> > helpful and it looks like it was rushed off in a few seconds.
> > --
> > http://cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~pete/
> >
> > --
> > hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict:
> > 75. You start wondering whether you could actually upgrade your brain
> >     with a Pentium Pro microprocessor 80.  The upgrade works just fine.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 

Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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