On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 09:27:25AM +0000, Syd Hancock wrote:
I'm more concerned about the chap Roy who said that he had joined a local LUG and tried to get some help on irc only to receive a very rude brush-off. I have emailed him, and posted to the newsgroups, in reply.
Syd,
I wouldn't bother, I remember the guy in question coming on to irc, it was when a few people were talking about various things and this guy demanded personal attention. At first he asked about setting up "internet connection sharing, like in windows" and was told he would need a nat/masquerade firewall. When he was given a few links to pages to read he told us he didn't need a firewall as that wasn't what he wanted, so he was given some more help, when it turned out that he basically wanted someone to talk him through it and fix it for him he got told to go RTFM (as in the links we had posted him) and then made a nuisance of himself telling people that he didn't want to read all those pages "because it isn't applicable to me".
I also emailed him directly and with his rude reply that I got I wasn't surprised at how he got treated on irc, you also have to remember that u.l.e-a is now a troll bridge and the amount of interesting posts that appear there is somewhat limited.
Adam