[Discuss] excuse me?

[Brij Charan]

Alan, don't try to guilt trip, a lot of people spend their offtime on this
list giving help to those people that ask.
We gave you the help, you chose to ignore it.

I don't know how many tiomes people told you to try nvu, and the other
barrage of open source editors.  Have you even given those a shot?


On 8/14/07, Alan Clemens <alanclemens at shawcable.com> wrote:
>
> THANKS FOR BEING SO KIND AND HELPFUL ...boy...you guys sure do know
> how to make someone feel welcome don't  you?
>
>
> On 14-Aug-07, at 11:06 AM, Brij Charan wrote:
>
> > Noel, while I admire your initiative to calm things down, I think
> > you need
> > to view the whole scope of this discussion, perhaps you should do a
> > search
> > in your mailbox for all of alans questions, get the bigger picture,
> > and a
> > more 'informed' decision before you start barking against david.
> >
> >
> > On 8/14/07, noel at natnix.com <noel at natnix.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Ummm... David, I'm looking for a polite way of telling you you're
> >> being
> >> an asshole.  Alan's question is totally valid, seeing as nvu (open
> >> source) is the answer he was looking for.  Even if someone asks an
> >> off-topic question, be helpful, not a jerk.  Your attitude give Linux
> >> nerds a bad name.
> >>
> >> Alan, let me apologize for David's rude reply.  I personally welcome
> >> your questions.  Hopefully the trolls will keep their grumbling to
> >> themselves.  I usually ignore them, but I thought you should know
> >> we're
> >> not all jerks.
> >>
> >> ~Noel
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 10:54:38AM -0700, David Bronaugh wrote:
> >>> Alan Clemens wrote:
> >>>> To David Bronaugh,
> >>>>
> >>>> Well excuuuuuuuse me!  When I signed up to VMUG "Victoria Macintosh
> >>>> Users Group", they informed me that this was a open forum for Mac
> >>>> users, and I've never had any problems before...that is until
> >>>> you came
> >>>> along.
> >>> Then let me correct your mistaken impression. This is the Victoria
> >>> *Linux* Users Group. We talk about Linux and open source
> >>> software. If
> >>> you don't know what those are, I'm sure Wikipedia can inform you.
> >>> We do
> >>> not discuss proprietary software; this includes MacOS and
> >>> proprietary
> >>> applications in general.
> >>>
> >>> Perhaps you should have read that when you signed up for the list.
> >>>
> >>> David
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Brij Charan
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