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- From: chaneysa@nextnet.csus.edu (Stephen A Chaney)
- Subject: Re: #hack and #twilight_zone
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.194401.2727@csus.edu>
- Sender: news@csus.edu
- Organization: California State University Sacramento
- References: <1992Sep14.181242.28718@csus.edu> <HROSE.92Sep14143937@rocza.eff.org>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:44:01 GMT
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- In article <HROSE.92Sep14143937@rocza.eff.org> hrose@eff.org (Helen Trillian Rose) writes:
- >Stephen> == Stephen A Chaney <chaneysa@nextnet.csus.edu>
- >
- >[...]
- >
- > Stephen> I went and POLITELY (read: NICELY WITHOUT BEING UGLY) asked
- > Stephen> about this problem, and I got this from #twilight_zone:
- >
- >[...]
- >
- >I dunno about #hack, but #Twilight_Zone people tend to get irritated
- >answering every little question. "How can I compile <insert name of
- >program that usually has nothing to do with irc here>?" "How can I fix
- >it so that I can run my ircIIbot?" "so and so took my nick, how can I
- >get it back?", etc.
-
- Understood. I didn't mean to contribute to overloading the ops with trivial
- questions.
-
- >I'm not saying #Twilight_Zone'rs won't answer questions. It's just that
- >after 6,000,000 worthless questions a day, #T_Z'ers can be just a little
- >irritated. Give us a chance, we're human, we get angry just as much as
- >the next person. Although we try to answer questions to the best of our
- >ability, sometimes it's impossible (I've had people ask me how to dial
- >into their local computer network! As if I'd know!)
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- How's about a deal: If you don't feel like helping, can we ask where to
- go to find out the answers?
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- Standard Disclaimer.
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