That's funny ... because I thought that everyone was welcome here.
Andy .... if you do come back to read this thread .... please don't judge
this place by one person, and don't feel intimidated to ask for help when you
need it. There are many people here who will offer a helping hand... From
what I've read of this thread, it seems as though the majority feels the same
way. Basically it comes down to "treating people the way you'd like to be
treated". Common courtesy goes a long way.

"David Candy" wrote:

Because it's NOT A PROBLEM. As I said only people with OCD would care. It's not even customisation. It's two letters.

The flip is the sort of person to go to a hospital with a broken finger just after a bus has a headon.

So how much time do you spend watching the Welcome Screen. It's just a continuing example of scum coming here with their little selfish thieving ways and trying to waste bandwidth with useless and pointless questions.

Flips aren't welcomed here.

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"David Candy"
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No I just don't like abusive people.

And

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Does the EN prevent tasks from being performed?
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You really should get a sense of proportion between working with a
computer (debugging) and being a complete flip (two letters on a
welcome screen). This isn't microsoft technical support.

Since the OP has not posted here before (the 1995 posts found by Google
Groups look to be someone else), it is possible the user was directed to
the newsgroup and thought that Microsoft's tech support actually visits
here. That would not be a unique misconception of just this one poster.
However, there is also no evidence by the OP that they were unaware that
this a peer community of volunteers to assist other users. Since the OP
posted using a non-Microsoft news server and *not* through the
webnews-for-dummies CDO interface (looks like he posted using NTL
World's own news servers) then it is even more likely that the OP knew
that Microsoft doesn't provide free tech support here.

If users want to post a question regarding how to change configuration
or preferences within Windows (and which aren't critical "problems")
then in what newsgroup would you suggest they post? Seems like
*.newusers was an appropriate newsgroup, to me, as were the other three
groups (I'm assuming NTL World's news server's
microsoft.public.windowsxp.bas is aliased to
microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics).

Other than severely exaggerating the irritation of having to read a post
that contained misspelling and punctuation errors, just what did you
find abusive by the post? No, just don't simply say it was abusive.
WHY was it abusive? I'm having a hard time wrapping myself around your
viewpoint. A user that is too lazy to bother to use the included help
does not itself engender abusiveness to a post. That a stupid post (in
the opinion of a particular reader) wastes bandwidth and disk space is
also not abusive. There are a hell of a lot more stupid questions
posted than this one, like those too lazy to search before repeatedly
asking why OE has blocked attachments. Have you gone attacking all
those lazy users, too? Rather than being lazy, it is also possible that
the user is so new a user that they don't even realize what help is
already included with a product.


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