[cobalt-users] Help please.

[Dom Latter <qube@xxxxxxx>]

Dear all, 

I would like to become an Internet Service Provider, renting out webspace.

However, I don't want to learn anything about the Internet, or servers.
(The Provider bit I understand, my customers "provide" me with a new car.)

I want to do this with a free operating system running on cheap hardware,
with a GUI to configure it so I don't have to learn anything about the OS.

But obviously I'll need to customise my setup for my particular needs.
When I discover that the company that sold me the hardware won't support 
the changes I want to make, then I expect there to be a mailing list where
all my questions will be answered promptly.  Don't ask me to check the 
archives or the Knowledge Base - I'm too busy!

Don't ask me not to post in HTML either, I'm too busy to find out how
to turn it off, and as for those poor suckers that pay by the minute 
for internet access - ha! get with it, guys!  Nor do I see why I should
spend time trimming down the posts that I am replying to, or putting
my replies after the quoted text, after all, this might make it easier 
and quicker for everyone else to read, but *my* time is clearly vastly
more valuable than yours.

Can anyone spot any flaws in this plan?

yours sincerely,

W. Annabe.


P.S.  For those who continue to wonder why I make such a fuss about 
trimming posts and putting your reply after the quote - I've tried
to explain *why* enough times.  But I am less and less inclined to 
help people with problems if they post in that way.  And I'm getting
tempted to just killfile the names of repeat offenders.

Monday morning rant over.