On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, The Burkes wrote:
> This is so rediculous. What a bunch of sissies! Did you join the
> mailing list to get your questions answered without intention of
> helping anyone else out? Remember? Thats what this is for. It's
> give and take!
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if this is most true of the ones
that post the off-topic and/or really basic questions.
> Moderator, can you remove me from the group A.S.A.P.? Thank you.
What a sissy! Do it yourself!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet
> API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Daniel Lynn
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 5:19 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Why the people are so rude ?
>
>
> ok, I really hate myself for escalating this, but how do you tell if
> someone did look hard for stuff and just didn't find it? And does
> your boss let you go out to the bookstore whenever you're unsure of
> something? Or will he buy every book written on Java for you? I know
> mine won't. And how long is long enough to look? I just posted a
> question about detecting if Javascript was turned on in a browser
> thatI've spent days trying to figure out in java servlets, jsp, and
> php... for all I know it could be in "O'reily's book of browser
> programming" or something else I never heard of and I just didn't
> come accross it.
>
> Anyway, point is that it's hard to say wether someone has really put
> in time or not and, since unneeded messages are so unwelcome here
> (as I was so vehemently assured of when I asked a perl question),
> perhaps it would be a better course of action for the simplest of
> questions of simply be ignored. That way they'll get the hint and at
> the sametime, noone has to wade through flames.
>
> Just an idea. Oh, and if someone abuses the list with too many poor
> questions, I'm guessing we can count on the moderator to take care
> of it, since, ultimately, there's nothing we can do to the poster
> except yell at him.
>
> ok, I'm done now...
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Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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