| From: | Jim Spratt |
| Date: | 29 Sep 2001 at 16:40:37 |
| Subject: | [amigactive] Re: Arcnet & #amiga not very friendly |
Hello matt@kittycat.co.uk
On 29-Sep-01, you wrote:
>> Prolly depends on who U ask :-|, tho U could do worse than try
>> #amihelp (where I hang out on Arcnet), as we're VERY friendly
>> there... In fact I usually don't frequent #amiga unless I need
>> to, to avoid the rants of a certain Mr Sealey - tho it must be
>> said that he's extremely helpful when U catch him in a good mood...
>
> No Jim, I think you're mistaken: I'm extremely helpful when I can
> be bothered to help and abusive when you just won't get lost when I
> ask you to.
Exactly, and I've experienced this 1st hand, but I've also experienced the
side of you that doesn't want to help as well...
> Matt Matt, can you help me with this? Matt, I need to test Jabber,
> can you do this for me? Matt, my Amiga died, can you help? Matt Matt,
> can I ask you a question?
I asked U to do ONE thing for me in Jabber, tho I take your point about
people hounding U FOR help...
> No, you can't. I'm sick of being hounded by people on IRC because they
> think I can help them. Of *course* I can help, I'm a goddamn genius,
> but that doesn't mean I want to :)
Ah - now I know this I'll be aware of it then...
> Please direct all support requests to the channel and interested
> parties will step forward and deal with them. Do not hound me
> personally for support, Jimbo. If I find a break from the 4 or 5
> coding projects I'm sitting on, and the bugtesting Voyager (and no,
> I have no idea when there will be a release) and oh NEVER ask me
> about bugs in Voyager or how to code HTML to get it to work in
> Voyager either...
Matt, we both know that how HTML is coded should be immaterial to the
browser...
> I dunno, I guess I sit on IRC in #amiga to get away from work, not to
> have it thrust back onto me, or have abuse hurled at me because I'm
> not wetting my pants over Eyetech's new dongle.
I agree with U here as well, as the last thing I'd want to do is do what I
do @ work when I'm @ home
Re the Amiga1 I think it's a matter of personal opinion, tho IMO it'll be a
miracle if the Amiga ever becomes mainstream again...
Regards
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