"::Y-Not::" <+10$-Y-Not@here.com> wrote:
>In article <43c2b0c5$0$4244$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>, Plurpsius
><x@126.0.0.1:4299> wrote:
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>> "Go||um" <wow@bow.bow> wrote:
>> >On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:59:32 -0500, "::Y-Not::" <+10$-Y-Not@here.com>
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >>In article <1136670936_25797@spool1-east.superfeed.net>, <pleet wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Thank you for yor explanation, I never knew the reason for the formats
>> >>>used.
>> >>> I'm saving for a computer, but thanks for your offer. Any
>> >>>recomendations
>> >>>for
>> >>> what kind I should get?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>Yes. Get whatever your support person in your area can help you with.
>> >>New computer users need a helper, and it stands to reason that they
>> >>should get what their helper recommends.
>> >>
>> >>If you can afford it, get a new computer from a major brand name maker,
>> >>such as Dell or Apple, so you can have a good warranty and official
>> >>help with it.
>> >>If you have a real techie friend, you could get a perfectly good used
>> >>one, from a place like www.surpluscomputers.com , VERY cheaply. He
>> >>could then set it up for you with all the software you need, which can
>> >>actually be downloaded from the newsgroups. :-)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>Good luck!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>Y Not
>> >
>> >If he gets a mac, he must be you. :)
>> >
>> And? Did you snigger?
>>
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>I don't know about him, but I sure didn't!
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>I was annoyed with him for bringing extraneous, and possibly
>contentious, issues into a serious help thread.
>I didn't post to bring that to his attention, possibly making the
>matter worse, in the hope that it might go unnoticed.
>Both of you have disrespected, with your comments, the person who asked
>for help. Would you want to see this, if you were in his position? If
>you have real help to offer a requester, that he actually needs, please
>give it. Anything else, isn't appropriate for a help thread. Please
>consider this in the future, when you are moved to post things like
>this.
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>Y Not
>
Sometime's you are so funny!
Plurp
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