I, Neil C. Obremski have full, exclusive rights to the message you transfer to me, including all miscelanous information bundled with it, such as names, server path information, date, and email address. Your personal information will not be directly subjectable to spam-oriented businesses, internet listings, or any other unholsom advertising gimmics.
Messages received that do not fully comply with the guidelines written here, those that I deem offensive, or messages that contain unholsome content by standard moral laws will, along with all miscelanous information, be considered entirely public material. Messages of this nature may be posted on this site or other, possibly unrelated, sites for example, amusement, or any other purpose without privacy of his/her included information such as name and email address. However I, Neil C. Obremski, will not expose these or any other message to harrassment, threats, spamming, or any other illegal activity.
Messages received that are deemed appropriate by me or the contact guidelines will be considered wholey confidential unless otherwise explicitely disallowed from being so by the sender. Confidential messages and included information will not be given out under any circumstance without permission from both parties, i.e. Neil C. Obremski and the original sender. The one exception to confidential messages is if they contain a statement of commentary about the site. Messages of this kind may have the commentary statement posted on the site as a form of vain public advertisement.
Messages sent that contain general information relating to the site may be posted as F.A.Q. entries or somewhere else on the site that pertains.
It is fine if you add me to your contact list, but be forewarned that I will probably not be adding you to mine. I simply don't have the patience to afford a contact list that is more than one page long. This does not mean to say that you will not get a response if you message me, but I will not (easily) sport unfounded "friendly" chats or message banter. Also do not expect immediate response from me, just because I am online does not mean I am at my computer.
- ICQ Contact Rules
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send nothing other than plain ol' MESSAGES unless previously cleared with me. (I recently put someone on my ignore list because he sent me URLs FOUR times and each time I had told him to stop. See!? Nobody listens to me! 
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- E-Mail Contact Rules
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do not spam me! If you send me more than one email (accidents are of course allowed) with the same contents then you will not get positive feedback from me.
do not cross-post! Never send the same question to more than one of my e-mail addresses except under special (explanable) conditions (like if the server for one address is down).
- Don't try begging me to do illegal things, like cut CDs of compilers I own - I won't do it. And if you piss me off enough, then you'll have Software Police knocking at your door.
- Do not demand/ask/plead that I write, assist in writing, psuedo code, or plan out a program or piece of a program (like a function). Unless your contracting me out (of which I will charge sufficient fees for the process), this is absolutely unacceptable. And yet I keep getting messages like this!? I will decide if it is necessary to write you a smackeral (or more) of code in my reply.
- Have good grammar. If you are not entirely proficient with English then I will understand, otherwise you have no excuse for writing something like (this is an actual quote): "OK, I NEED TO HOW IF I GONNA USE A LOOP TO WRITE NUMS FROM 1-10 ON A PRINT OUT".
- Keep messages as concise as possible. Long messages are a big turn off when I go to answering these things.
- Do your own school work because I am trying to help people LEARN C++ not cheat them through a course.
- Source tid-bits of what you're trying to accomplish is fine, but don't send me whole files of ANY kind, either as attachments or pasted inside the message body itself.
- Asking my opinion in a matter is fine, but do not use me as leverage in a fruitless argument (like Language "A" is better than Language "B").
- Utterly pointless swearing, like "oh f**k I'm gonna fail this class if you don't help me" is prohibited. I do tolerate, or rather enjoy, most casual swearing.
- Insults are fine as long as they're at me or my site or something related.
I received an email that was a perfect example of what not to send me. This kind warrants either a rude response from me or none at all. I decided to post it here so you can take pointers:
From: basitshahzad@hotmail.com (Basit Shahzad) |
If I get enough e-mails of this kind I may be tempted to start an archive, just so I have something to laugh at in my spare time.
. And if you decide to buy a book from Amazon.com, reach their site through one of my links on the books page. Doing either of these SIMPLE tasks will not only help me, but inspire me to write further articles. Thank you.
