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On 24 Jan 2006 12:01:15 -0800, wrote, quoted
or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>>please don't post unless it has something to do wiht original post

Don't be silly. The best you can hope for is tenuous relevant to post
quted. Topic drift is inevitable.
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"Babu Kalakrishnan" <> wrote in message
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> Luc The Perverse wrote:
>>
>> Yes - lets talk about acceptable usenet behavior for a second please.
>
> Hmm....
>
> <snip>
>
>> 3. Please stop being a dick. This is a forum of people - if you need
>> slaves, consider hiring out people in a 3rd world country.
>
> And I suppose a remark that terms people from "third world countries" as
> "slaves" is very PROPER usenet behaviour ..
>
> Ever heard something on the lines "Pot.. kettle.. black..." ?


Sorry - what I meant was that if you offer someone about 3-10 times their
normal wages they will typically be eager to be at your service. It was my
impression that he could not afford to do this with most Java programmers in
a developed country.

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wrote:
> two wrongs don't make a right.
> please don't post unless it has something to do wiht original post

Who are you to tell us?


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Luc The Perverse wrote:
> Yes - lets talk about acceptable usenet behavior for a second please.
>

> 3. Please stop being a dick. This is a forum of people - if you need
> slaves, consider hiring out people in a 3rd world country. You are not the
> king of the thread, NG, etc - and if people with an established reputation
> want the thread to drift then that's their prerogative.

I believe that watching your use of language should be included in your
list, eh??

Talk about hypocrisy...

Mike.

"Michael Redlich" <> wrote in message
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>
> Luc The Perverse wrote:
>> Yes - lets talk about acceptable usenet behavior for a second please.
>>
>
>> 3. Please stop being a dick. This is a forum of people - if you need
>> slaves, consider hiring out people in a 3rd world country. You are not
>> the
>> king of the thread, NG, etc - and if people with an established
>> reputation
>> want the thread to drift then that's their prerogative.
>
> I believe that watching your use of language should be included in your
> list, eh??
>
> Talk about hypocrisy...


^^

Appearantly I ****ed everyone off - sorry about that.

But am I the only one that finds it offensive for someone to march into a
group, post a question and expect everyone in the group to bend over
backwards for them?
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no but u might be the only one who thinks i expected anyone to bend
over backwards for me.

Luc The Perverse wrote:

> But am I the only one that finds it offensive for someone to march into a
> group, post a question and expect everyone in the group to bend over
> backwards for them?

Not in the least.

But for me is just another Google-powered looser. They
proliferate like malaria parasites and have about as much willingness to learn
the norms of the communities they are invading[*], or even just to behave with
ordinary courtesy.

There are too many of them, and there is nothing to be done but ignore them or
give up Usenet altogether.

-- chris
[*] There are some important exceptions, of course.

<> wrote in message
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> no but u might be the only one who thinks i expected anyone to bend
> over backwards for me.
>

no you are wrong wrong - and two wrongs don't make a right - so I suppose it
would just be better if everyone would focus their efforts on answering the
original question.

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LTP

"Chris Uppal" <> wrote in message
news:43d7e33d$0$87290$.. .
> Luc The Perverse wrote:
>
>> But am I the only one that finds it offensive for someone to march into a
>> group, post a question and expect everyone in the group to bend over
>> backwards for them?
>
> Not in the least.
>
> But for me is just another Google-powered looser.
> They
> proliferate like malaria parasites and have about as much willingness to
> learn
> the norms of the communities they are invading[*], or even just to behave
> with
> ordinary courtesy.
>
> There are too many of them, and there is nothing to be done but ignore
> them or
> give up Usenet altogether.
>
> -- chris
>
>[*] There are some important exceptions, of course.
>
>
>

I hadn't thought of it that way - perhaps I should start ignoring, one
killfile at a time!

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LTP

"Luc The Perverse" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "Michael Redlich" <> wrote in message
> news: oups.com...
>>
>> Luc The Perverse wrote:
>>> Yes - lets talk about acceptable usenet behavior for a second please.
>>>
>>
>>> 3. Please stop being a dick. This is a forum of people - if you need
>>> slaves, consider hiring out people in a 3rd world country. You are not
>>> the
>>> king of the thread, NG, etc - and if people with an established
>>> reputation
>>> want the thread to drift then that's their prerogative.
>>
>> I believe that watching your use of language should be included in your
>> list, eh??
>>
>> Talk about hypocrisy...
>
>
> ^^
>
> Appearantly I ****ed everyone off - sorry about that.

I didn't think you had any malicious intent when you wrote the above, so
it didn't bother me.

>
> But am I the only one that finds it offensive for someone to march into a
> group, post a question and expect everyone in the group to bend over
> backwards for them?

Maybe you get offended too easily. =) It's an unmoderated newsgroup, so
anyone is free to make posts demanding anything they want, and we are free
to either follow those demands (as I initially tried), or ignore them (as
many others have done), or make posts explaining to that first person that
they shouldn't be so demanding (as you have done), etc.

I was trying to help questionmarc420 out, but it quickly became
apparently that I was giving out bad or incorrect advice, so I figured I'd
better shut up and not cause any more harm, right?

questionmarc420 asked (told?) people not to reply to this thread unless
it had some relevance to the original topic. I obeyed this request for a
while and didn't post anything new, but now I've changed my mind and replied
to the thread in the form of the post you are reading right now. And this
post doesn't have much to do with the original post of this thread.

On the chance that questionmarc420 doesn't get satisfactory help to
his/her initial problem and can't figure out why, (s)he may be interested in
reading this:

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/newsgroups.html#GIFTHORSE

- Oliver