Why the rudeness around here???

[George]

I wish I could understand how people come to a place to get help ( this
newsgroup ), and there are those who think that since they know a little bit
about computers that this makes everyone else dumber than a rock, get
ridiculed( you know who you are )? Why do you people(you know who you are)
have to come off as disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable of the
simplest stuff?????

Just because you had a terrible childhood or whatever the heck your problems
are you DO NOT HAVE TO BRING IT IN HERE!!! ( go ahead and holler at me
because I have my caps on, WHO CARES ).

BTW, how do you black list these people in Outlook Express? I am all for
getting rid of Silly You who I am sure will comment on this! He is not
alone in the disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable area neither.

I hope everyone has a blessed day, even you Silly You!!!

[Peter A. Stavrakoglou]

"George" > wrote in message
...
> I wish I could understand how people come to a place to get help (
this
> newsgroup ), and there are those who think that since they know a
little bit
> about computers that this makes everyone else dumber than a rock,
get
> ridiculed( you know who you are )? Why do you people(you know who
you are)
> have to come off as disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable of
the
> simplest stuff?????
>
> Just because you had a terrible childhood or whatever the heck your
problems
> are you DO NOT HAVE TO BRING IT IN HERE!!! ( go ahead and holler at
me
> because I have my caps on, WHO CARES ).
>
> BTW, how do you black list these people in Outlook Express? I am
all for
> getting rid of Silly You who I am sure will comment on this! He is
not
> alone in the disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable area
neither.
>
> I hope everyone has a blessed day, even you Silly You!!!
>
>

The rude individuals are in the vast minority here. Most are helpful
and cordial, particularly the MS MVPs who give of theit personal time
to help us.

[gls858]

George
go to tools>message rules>block senders list or you could set up a rule at tools>message rules>news

gld858
"George" > wrote in message ...
> I wish I could understand how people come to a place to get help ( this
> newsgroup ), and there are those who think that since they know a little bit
> about computers that this makes everyone else dumber than a rock, get
> ridiculed( you know who you are )? Why do you people(you know who you are)
> have to come off as disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable of the
> simplest stuff?????
>
> Just because you had a terrible childhood or whatever the heck your problems
> are you DO NOT HAVE TO BRING IT IN HERE!!! ( go ahead and holler at me
> because I have my caps on, WHO CARES ).
>
> BTW, how do you black list these people in Outlook Express? I am all for
> getting rid of Silly You who I am sure will comment on this! He is not
> alone in the disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable area neither.
>
> I hope everyone has a blessed day, even you Silly You!!!
>
>

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Peter,

Its not just the MVP's that give of their personal time. Everyone who takes
a few minutes to answer a question for someone does so on their time :-)
Its just sad when there are those who have the answer, or even a better
answer, and use it, primarily, to make someone else look bad, instead of
just helping the poster resolve their problem.

--
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Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
--------------------------------
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ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
--------------------------------
Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.

"Peter A. Stavrakoglou" > wrote in message
...
> "George" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I wish I could understand how people come to a place to get help (
> this
> > newsgroup ), and there are those who think that since they know a
> little bit
> > about computers that this makes everyone else dumber than a rock,
> get
> > ridiculed( you know who you are )? Why do you people(you know who
> you are)
> > have to come off as disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable of
> the
> > simplest stuff?????
> >
> > Just because you had a terrible childhood or whatever the heck your
> problems
> > are you DO NOT HAVE TO BRING IT IN HERE!!! ( go ahead and holler at
> me
> > because I have my caps on, WHO CARES ).
> >
> > BTW, how do you black list these people in Outlook Express? I am
> all for
> > getting rid of Silly You who I am sure will comment on this! He is
> not
> > alone in the disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable area
> neither.
> >
> > I hope everyone has a blessed day, even you Silly You!!!
> >
> >
>
> The rude individuals are in the vast minority here. Most are helpful
> and cordial, particularly the MS MVPs who give of theit personal time
> to help us.
>
>

[Stuart Mueller]

While sitting at a computer George wrote:
> I wish I could understand how people come to a place to get help (
> this newsgroup ), and there are those who think that since they know
> a little bit about computers that this makes everyone else dumber
> than a rock, get ridiculed( you know who you are )? Why do you
> people(you know who you are) have to come off as disrespectful,
> inconsiderate, and intolerable of the simplest stuff?????
>
> Just because you had a terrible childhood or whatever the heck your
> problems are you DO NOT HAVE TO BRING IT IN HERE!!! ( go ahead and
> holler at me because I have my caps on, WHO CARES ).
>
> BTW, how do you black list these people in Outlook Express? I am all
> for getting rid of Silly You who I am sure will comment on this! He
> is not alone in the disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable
> area neither.
>
> I hope everyone has a blessed day, even you Silly You!!!

Highlight the persons post who you wish to block then go to messages and
block sender.

[Harry Ohrn]

To add someone to the Block Sender List you simply highlight their post then
go to Message->Block Sender. All posts by that person will be removed from
your view and subsequent posts will not be downloaded.
--

Harry Ohrn - MS MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


"George" > wrote in message
...
> I wish I could understand how people come to a place to get help ( this
> newsgroup ), and there are those who think that since they know a little
bit
> about computers that this makes everyone else dumber than a rock, get
> ridiculed( you know who you are )? Why do you people(you know who you
are)
> have to come off as disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable of the
> simplest stuff?????
>
> Just because you had a terrible childhood or whatever the heck your
problems
> are you DO NOT HAVE TO BRING IT IN HERE!!! ( go ahead and holler at me
> because I have my caps on, WHO CARES ).
>
> BTW, how do you black list these people in Outlook Express? I am all for
> getting rid of Silly You who I am sure will comment on this! He is not
> alone in the disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable area neither.
>
> I hope everyone has a blessed day, even you Silly You!!!
>
>

[D.Currie]

Unfortunately, there are some people who post here specifically to be nasty,
and others who do have a certain high-and-mighty attitude even though they
sometimes offer help.

On the other hand, there are those who ask questions, but have a problem
accepting answers in a gracious way. I've seen people who will ask a
question with little detail, then when someone answers they'll post back
with, "What's wrong with you, you idiot, of course I already tried that!"

And there are times that an answer may seem rude, but it wasn't meant to be
that way. I had somebody snap back at one of my answers about how rude I
was, and after re-reading my post several times, I couldn't see how it was
rude at all.

As far as the all-caps thing, it is hard to read, and many people will
ignore those posts, thus the poster is losing out on getting advice from
those people. And believe me, the comments about it on this newsgroup are a
lot tamer than what they'd get in other groups. So letting them know that
posting in normal case is better is actually helpful in the long run.
Although I agree that some people take an odd delight in just posting about
the caps without offering any other advice.

As far as not reading the people who annoy you, you can set it up in
Outlook's message rules. It's quite a handy tool for newsgroups and for
mail.


"George" > wrote in message
...
> I wish I could understand how people come to a place to get help ( this
> newsgroup ), and there are those who think that since they know a little
bit
> about computers that this makes everyone else dumber than a rock, get
> ridiculed( you know who you are )? Why do you people(you know who you
are)
> have to come off as disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable of the
> simplest stuff?????
>
> Just because you had a terrible childhood or whatever the heck your
problems
> are you DO NOT HAVE TO BRING IT IN HERE!!! ( go ahead and holler at me
> because I have my caps on, WHO CARES ).
>
> BTW, how do you black list these people in Outlook Express? I am all for
> getting rid of Silly You who I am sure will comment on this! He is not
> alone in the disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable area neither.
>
> I hope everyone has a blessed day, even you Silly You!!!
>
>

[Jim Macklin]

Block sender, highlight the message and select Message/block
sender

To view your block sender list, Tools/message rules...block
sender. You can add or remove names on this page.


"George" > wrote in message
...
| I wish I could understand how people come to a place to
get help ( this
| newsgroup ), and there are those who think that since they
know a little bit
| about computers that this makes everyone else dumber than
a rock, get
| ridiculed( you know who you are )? Why do you people(you
know who you are)
| have to come off as disrespectful, inconsiderate, and
intolerable of the
| simplest stuff?????
|
| Just because you had a terrible childhood or whatever the
heck your problems
| are you DO NOT HAVE TO BRING IT IN HERE!!! ( go ahead and
holler at me
| because I have my caps on, WHO CARES ).
|
| BTW, how do you black list these people in Outlook
Express? I am all for
| getting rid of Silly You who I am sure will comment on
this! He is not
| alone in the disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable
area neither.
|
| I hope everyone has a blessed day, even you Silly You!!!
|
|

[Unknown]

Because they ARE disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable of the
simplest stuff. This applies to some posters AND some responders.
"Stuart Mueller" > wrote in message
...
> While sitting at a computer George wrote:
> > I wish I could understand how people come to a place to get help (
> > this newsgroup ), and there are those who think that since they know
> > a little bit about computers that this makes everyone else dumber
> > than a rock, get ridiculed( you know who you are )? Why do you
> > people(you know who you are) have to come off as disrespectful,
> > inconsiderate, and intolerable of the simplest stuff?????
> >
> > Just because you had a terrible childhood or whatever the heck your
> > problems are you DO NOT HAVE TO BRING IT IN HERE!!! ( go ahead and
> > holler at me because I have my caps on, WHO CARES ).
> >
> > BTW, how do you black list these people in Outlook Express? I am all
> > for getting rid of Silly You who I am sure will comment on this! He
> > is not alone in the disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable
> > area neither.
> >
> > I hope everyone has a blessed day, even you Silly You!!!
>
> Highlight the persons post who you wish to block then go to messages and
> block sender.
>
>

[Etienne Dehò \(506040\)]

> I am all for
> getting rid of Silly You who I am sure will comment on this!

LOL, dude, lol. It's kind of characteristic "it" hasn't commented yet. I
don't quite know *how* cowardly "it" is, but it most certainly can't be
little. Fake eMail add - dude, my heartfelt sympathy, ouch, that really
hurts. George, take it easy, block "it", and you should be set fine.

PS. Ouch again.

[Peter A. Stavrakoglou]

"Doug Knox MS-MVP" > wrote in message
...
> Peter,
>
> Its not just the MVP's that give of their personal time. Everyone
who takes
> a few minutes to answer a question for someone does so on their time
:-)
> Its just sad when there are those who have the answer, or even a
better
> answer, and use it, primarily, to make someone else look bad,
instead of
> just helping the poster resolve their problem.
>

There are quite a few posters that I have noted that I would think are
MVPs based on the level of their knowledge but are not MVPs. There
are more than a few experts in this group and I am confident that most
of the participants in this newsgroup certainly appreciate their
efforts in addition to the efforts of the MVPs..

[Bradc]

>-----Original Message-----
>Unfortunately, there are some people who post here
specifically to be nasty,
>and others who do have a certain high-and-mighty
attitude even though they
>sometimes offer help.
>
>On the other hand, there are those who ask questions,
but have a problem
>accepting answers in a gracious way. I've seen people
who will ask a
>question with little detail, then when someone answers
they'll post back
>with, "What's wrong with you, you idiot, of course I
already tried that!"
>
>And there are times that an answer may seem rude, but it
wasn't meant to be
>that way. I had somebody snap back at one of my answers
about how rude I
>was, and after re-reading my post several times, I
couldn't see how it was
>rude at all.
>
>As far as the all-caps thing, it is hard to read, and
many people will
>ignore those posts, thus the poster is losing out on
getting advice from
>those people. And believe me, the comments about it on
this newsgroup are a
>lot tamer than what they'd get in other groups. So
letting them know that
>posting in normal case is better is actually helpful in
the long run.
>Although I agree that some people take an odd delight in
just posting about
>the caps without offering any other advice.
>
>As far as not reading the people who annoy you, you can
set it up in
>Outlook's message rules. It's quite a handy tool for
newsgroups and for
>mail.
>
>
>"George" > wrote in message
...
>> I wish I could understand how people come to a place
to get help ( this
>> newsgroup ), and there are those who think that since
they know a little
>bit
>> about computers that this makes everyone else dumber
than a rock, get
>> ridiculed( you know who you are )? Why do you people
(you know who you
>are)
>> have to come off as disrespectful, inconsiderate, and
intolerable of the
>> simplest stuff?????
>>
>> Just because you had a terrible childhood or whatever
the heck your
>problems
>> are you DO NOT HAVE TO BRING IT IN HERE!!! ( go ahead
and holler at me
>> because I have my caps on, WHO CARES ).
>>
>> BTW, how do you black list these people in Outlook
Express? I am all for
>> getting rid of Silly You who I am sure will comment on
this! He is not
>> alone in the disrespectful, inconsiderate, and
intolerable area neither.
>>
>> I hope everyone has a blessed day, even you Silly
You!!!
>>
>>
>
>
>.
It's true that in online communication at times it's
possible to convey a certain inflection that you did not
intend. The tone of one's post may be misinterpreted.
But I believe the original post deals with the egregious
offenders. No question here that the guilty ones are
just plain rude. You have to pity them, that's all.
Think what their lives must be like offline. I try to
ignore them.

By the way, I think the original poster was simply
acknowledging that he was shouting (with the caps). He
seems to know already that all caps is not a good idea.

[sjbibb]

Very interesting reading all this and I agree with the
comments. The CAPs thing got me when I first posted to a
forum and the person was not very nice when he told me
this was wrong. People do not know the person condition
that is typing. Can you think how most of us would feel
it we made a remark that was not very nice to someone
that was typing without hands. I for one make many
mistakes typing and or with the English at time but you
see I have a condition that is shuting down my brain a
little everyday, and as such have problems with the
simple things at times. The reason I take the time to
even type this or try to help someone or get help on a
forum is because I need to keep my brain as active as
possible per the doctors.
So for those who have no problems and/or just are not
very nice I pray you do not have to walk in the other
person shoes, I did and found that it is not alway that
easy.
>-----Original Message-----
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Unfortunately, there are some people who post here
>specifically to be nasty,
>>and others who do have a certain high-and-mighty
>attitude even though they
>>sometimes offer help.
>>
>>On the other hand, there are those who ask questions,
>but have a problem
>>accepting answers in a gracious way. I've seen people
>who will ask a
>>question with little detail, then when someone answers
>they'll post back
>>with, "What's wrong with you, you idiot, of course I
>already tried that!"
>>
>>And there are times that an answer may seem rude, but
it
>wasn't meant to be
>>that way. I had somebody snap back at one of my answers
>about how rude I
>>was, and after re-reading my post several times, I
>couldn't see how it was
>>rude at all.
>>
>>As far as the all-caps thing, it is hard to read, and
>many people will
>>ignore those posts, thus the poster is losing out on
>getting advice from
>>those people. And believe me, the comments about it on
>this newsgroup are a
>>lot tamer than what they'd get in other groups. So
>letting them know that
>>posting in normal case is better is actually helpful in
>the long run.
>>Although I agree that some people take an odd delight
in
>just posting about
>>the caps without offering any other advice.
>>
>>As far as not reading the people who annoy you, you can
>set it up in
>>Outlook's message rules. It's quite a handy tool for
>newsgroups and for
>>mail.
>>
>>
>>"George" > wrote in message
...
>>> I wish I could understand how people come to a place
>to get help ( this
>>> newsgroup ), and there are those who think that since
>they know a little
>>bit
>>> about computers that this makes everyone else dumber
>than a rock, get
>>> ridiculed( you know who you are )? Why do you people
>(you know who you
>>are)
>>> have to come off as disrespectful, inconsiderate, and
>intolerable of the
>>> simplest stuff?????
>>>
>>> Just because you had a terrible childhood or whatever
>the heck your
>>problems
>>> are you DO NOT HAVE TO BRING IT IN HERE!!! ( go ahead
>and holler at me
>>> because I have my caps on, WHO CARES ).
>>>
>>> BTW, how do you black list these people in Outlook
>Express? I am all for
>>> getting rid of Silly You who I am sure will comment
on
>this! He is not
>>> alone in the disrespectful, inconsiderate, and
>intolerable area neither.
>>>
>>> I hope everyone has a blessed day, even you Silly
>You!!!
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>.
>It's true that in online communication at times it's
>possible to convey a certain inflection that you did not
>intend. The tone of one's post may be misinterpreted.
>But I believe the original post deals with the egregious
>offenders. No question here that the guilty ones are
>just plain rude. You have to pity them, that's all.
>Think what their lives must be like offline. I try to
>ignore them.
>
>By the way, I think the original poster was simply
>acknowledging that he was shouting (with the caps). He
>seems to know already that all caps is not a good idea.
>.
>

[Dr. Harvie Wahl-Banghor]

Some time, on or about: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:14:23 -0400, "George"
> was criminally insane in my professional opinion when
they claimed the following balderdash:

>I wish I could understand how people come to a place to get help ( this
>newsgroup ), and there are those who think that since they know a little bit
>about computers that this makes everyone else dumber than a rock, get
>ridiculed( you know who you are )? Why do you people(you know who you are)
>have to come off as disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable of the
>simplest stuff?????

This is Usenet and is an open forum. Since you (and nobody else, for
that matter) has any control over content, your best option is to
either ignore people you disagree with or simply killfile them. If you
don't know what a killfile is, look it up in the helpfile of your
Usenet browser. I also advise you don't go running to that person's
ISP just because you don't like what that someone said. NNTP admins
usually consider these spurious reports of net abuse and will promptly
ignore such complaints. If you don't like this arrangement, may I
suggest something more moderated like the Yahoo bulletin boards.

[George]

killfile is not in the helpfile database??? Thanks for the suggestion but
my only point was to know how to block from seeing a senders post and I now
know how to do that. BTW, I Yahoo too.

Thanks eveyone for their responses!!!



"Dr. Harvie Wahl-Banghor" > wrote in message
...
> Some time, on or about: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:14:23 -0400, "George"
> > was criminally insane in my professional opinion when
> they claimed the following balderdash:
>
> >I wish I could understand how people come to a place to get help ( this
> >newsgroup ), and there are those who think that since they know a little
bit
> >about computers that this makes everyone else dumber than a rock, get
> >ridiculed( you know who you are )? Why do you people(you know who you
are)
> >have to come off as disrespectful, inconsiderate, and intolerable of the
> >simplest stuff?????
>
> This is Usenet and is an open forum. Since you (and nobody else, for
> that matter) has any control over content, your best option is to
> either ignore people you disagree with or simply killfile them. If you
> don't know what a killfile is, look it up in the helpfile of your
> Usenet browser. I also advise you don't go running to that person's
> ISP just because you don't like what that someone said. NNTP admins
> usually consider these spurious reports of net abuse and will promptly
> ignore such complaints. If you don't like this arrangement, may I
> suggest something more moderated like the Yahoo bulletin boards.
>