I met lopharin IRL and was surprised, he was the total opposite of his IRC self, seemed like a real nice guy... *shrug* weird shit... As for kafka i personally do not need him around. On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Merlin Gillespie wrote: > > Quoting Rupert Spencer (rupertspencer@xxxxxxxxxxx): > > First of all, I want to ask you all to put in a good word for me if you are > related to Natalie Portman, Eliza Dushku, Claire Forlani or Shannon Elizabeth. > > > While the goatse.cx links didn't need to be given, the guy did deserve a > > trout slap - his legitimate question was easily answered by a simple search, > > instead of asking for it to be handed to him on a silver platter. "nat 1700" > > returns 187 hits on public cco and the first hit had a configuration > > example.Grounds for BAR in my opinion. > > Secondly, I agree that pushing people towards links such as these is all well > and good if someone comes in and A. says "HY I AM WANT IRCOP PLZZZZZ" or "can > someone give me a copy of boson router simulator + crack please". However, > having been in the past on the regular recieving end of useful help when the > fan > has fallen into the shit I can wholeheartedly relate to that poor fuckers > reaction. Whether you can search for something on CCO or not, is irrelevant. > Tell him > that it is available on cisco then halt. if it's a her, tell her how to do it. > Being made fun of when you are in a jam does not help you feel positive and > can > lead to random shootings in schools, road rage, assault and battery and most > of > all child molestation. Whether we are here primarily to have fun and > secondarily > to help or primarily to help and secondarily to have fun is moot. Our > incentives > are roughly the same and helping is included in the top two. Helping, and > being > unncessarily unhelpful without provocation are both mutually exclusive. > > > Still, Kafka's actions violate rule #1 (dont be a dick when u wearing the @) > > of the 11 channel commandments, and maybe #7 as well (dont abuse for > > legitimate questions) tho see above, I would consider this question very > > borderline or grey area since the first hit on CCO answered it. > > I still quite like kafka, even though he's been acting increasingly like > dos622 > over the past little while. > Loph, however, his parents didn't love him enough, he's bitter and angry at > the > world. He's going to councilling now and I am confident that with the right > drugs, he'll relax. We just need to tell him that it isn't his fault once in a > while. Also, it's useful having someone around that knows multicast inside > out. > > > It might be that some people just have to be told directly DO NOT POST LINKS > > TO FAGGOTRY in the channel, since they obviously either cant put 2 and 2 > > together or ignore the rule #1 totally. > > I think that the best action in this case would be to send a polite "please do > not post links to goatse.cx or any other equally faggy places with a undertone > of "prepare to experience a kick in the nuts if you do". > > A bean toast > > -merl > > -- > Merlin Gillespie..........................Unmetered & ADSL solutions > Network Systems Engineer.........................for Home & Business > PlusNet Technologies Ltd.........................http://www.plus.net > ------------ My Referrals - It pays to recommend PlusNet ------------- > >