Howard said:
My, my...a little touchy, aren't we! Let me guess...you've been reading
that crap from perseus?
Not really, although I've seen all the threads. Time is too scarce a
resource to waste your time on crap like that.
You replied with profanity, and no explanation at all.
Uh, unless "crap" is now profanity, you're just making stuff up. And I
did explain that comp.lang.c++ wasn't the group for your .Net needs,
whether you like how I expressed it or not.
And your response only makes sense if the OP knows (in advance) that his topic
was, well, off-topic.
The fact that this is comp.lang.c++ and not comp.lang..net should have
alerted him to the fact that he was off-topic.
Despite what many say here, newbies in general have no idea that there even
*is* an FAQ page until they are told so.
You don't need the FAQ to read the sign that says comp.lang.c++.
If I walked into a hardware store and asked where the milk was, and you
responded by asking "what in the crap milk has to do with hardware", you'd be
looking for a fight, or at least a well-aimed finger.
And yet, if half of everybody that came through my hardware store was
asking for milk, you'd not only probably get a response similar to the
one you just mentioned, but I might not care too much about the
consequences either.
You *might* consider giving newbies a break, once at least, and either being
polite in your response or ignoring their post altogether.
As I usually am, those times that I don't ignore them, which I almost
always do. I already explained to you the cause for my attitude in
this instance, although I must admit that I'm getting just about sick
of all the .Net questions here.
There is absolutely NO reason to snap his head off like that.
Sure there was, just not necessarily the best one in your opinion.
Until robots start visiting newsgroups, you're going to have to deal
with humans and their limited patience.
(At least not until they start acting like our dear friend perseus.)
Hmm, getting people's private information is easy these days, just cry
"copyright violation," no proof needed or anything. I'm all for
forming a comp.lang.c++ mob, going to his house, and beating him with
a stick in his own yard.
Tommy McDaniel