RE: [cobalt-users] Help please.

["Amy Matthews" <a.i.m.@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Prat!

If you do not wish to reply to people asking for help - go elsewhere.

This is the most unhelpful e-mail list, I have ever come across.

As for replies at the top - this the default on the majority of e-mail
clients (I.E. MS).

Why should I or others have to keep scrolling to the bottom of every e-mail,
when we have been reading the thread to date. All we are interested in is
the answer - the question we already know.

I realise that your e-mail is one of sarcasm, but many people on this list
are new to the world of servers, they wish to learn, but often cannot find
the answers to their questions in the archives. So what so they do- they
ask.

This is a Cobalt list, one supported and promoted by Cobalt to take some of
the burden from other support lines. It does not put Cobalt in a good light
if people like you, keep on criticising others.

If you can't stand the heat - get out of the fire.

Join in or get lost.

Now that is off my chest, can we please get on with supporting each other,
than snipping.

Amy.


-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dom Latter
Sent: 06 March 2000 11:39
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cobalt-users] Help please.


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.

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