Thank you for your "Help"!!

[Derek Broughton]

Macario Valle wrote:

> I do not know how much power Derek has on this group, and I really not
> care.
> But, it makes my blood boil when customers are mistreated, and make no
> mistake, whether paid or not this is a customer.

No, he's not.  This is a _cooperative_ support group.  That means that we
need the users who want some support to try to help.  Perhaps I could have
been kinder to him, but when he can't even be bothered to make a legible
post, I have no time for him - and few others will.  At least I tried to
point out to him why he isn't likely to get help.

> If any of us did not feel like helping the newby, let it go.  Linux is
> out there to gain market share, 

Again, I disagree.  Linux is NOT out to get market share.  Most of us
couldn't care less about the market.

> My motto is "pass it forward", meaning someone has helped me in the
> past, so I am morally obligated to help anybody I can, when i can.

Good motto (actually it's "pay it forward" - see the movie of the same
name), and I spend a lot of time every day helping people here and on other
groups.  But they have to try to help themselves.  When they refuse to even
use an email quote function (I expect he was posting in HTML, but I just
don't care enough to find out), they're not helping themselves.

> Ian should not feel like he needs to leave the user group just because
> one member did not like his very basic questions.

I was the ONLY person who helped him!  Where were you?

-- 
derek