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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Mr. Moderator, please post XXX
Message-ID: <11879@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 17 Aug 88 15:25:03 GMT
References:  <222@pigs.UUCP> <6031@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <236@pigs.UUCP> <4663@whuts.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <4663@whuts.UUCP> wsd@whuts.UUCP (54299-DINSMORE,W.S.) writes:

| I have seen alot of boasting about this rpp386 site lately and it's
| really sad you think you're doing everyone a favor! The users in our group

	Sure looks like a favor to me. He's spending his time and money
to make information available for the cost of a phone call. He keeps it
relatively up-to-date and has a nice listing you can get so you don't
have the cost of poking around.

| can't modify the L.sys files you talk about. What we have is what we work

	Perhaps you could take the uupc program, put it on a PC, and
call as intended on your nickel instead of the net's. Nah, you're going
to say that you don't have a PC, or a modem, or you didn't save the
software, or you don't have the nickel.

| with, period. I have used some sites where all you need to do is send a
| mail message with a subject of SERVER and a body with the commands and
| files being requested. Much easier, no problems. As far as I can tell

	And it's someone else's phone bill, best of all.

| the rpp386 site is of no use to us. If I'm wrong, by all means correct me.
| It just irks me that some people assume the world knows everything they
| do, and if they don't they have to submit to flames from someone who 
| refuses to get off their high horse and give a little help.
| 
|   CAN THE ATTITUDE GENTLEMEN AND HELP THESE PEOPLE!

	There's an attitude problem here, all right. You seem to think
that free service is your just due, and that people should add software
for a server and run up their phone bill for your benefit. I try to help
people who say things about "I don't know how, can someone assist me?",
but someone who bitches about not getting enough free service is not
going to get any help from me.

| 'Nuff said.

	true. I have a lot more personal insults and comments, but I'm
mailing them. This is just the tip of the iceburg for my opinion on
your posting!

-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
  {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me