NORVELL@KNOX.BITNET (ozymandias G desiderata) (05/13/91)
To all of you who are reading my requests for help on using compressed
files in the comp.lang.modula2 newsgroup: please ignore any and all postings I
have put on this list. I guess they are completely irrelevant to modula-2. I
don't have access to news, Usenet or Internet, and I have managed to completely
exhaust any other routes for help that I might have taken. I
was hoping that maybe somebody else had been through this process and could
give me some help. From the amount of nasty mail that I've been getting, I guess
that isn't going to happen. So to all of you who think that my quest for
assistance is irrelevant, please ignore my messages or help me out. That might
shut me up. Otherwise, I don't think it's particularly helpful (or nice) to
whack on me for making what I didn't know was a mistake. I've posted questions
like these on the net before (to other lists), and the people there have always
been helpful and friendly and haven't cared that what I was asking about was
relevant to the "core" issues of the list. Pardon my naivete for thinking that
info-m2 was the same.
To avoid some misunderstanding, I guess I should say that
I am on BITNET, and sending my notes to a mailing list. Most of the really
flaming letters have been from people reading my stuff in the news. I DON'T
HAVE NEWS. STOP TELLING ME TO LOOK AT THE vax newsgroup or the alt.files.com-
pression or unix.wizards or whatever. I CAN'T. I'm just a comp-sci student
at a small, private midwestern college with a single small VAX running VMS
to play around with. We can ONLY access BITNET. I hope this clears some things
up. I'm sorry to have WASTED everybody's valuable time. I already feel stupid
enough for not being able to figure this out on my own. Thanks to everyone
for making me feel like an imbecile for asking a question.
nettled,
ozymandias
P.S. I don't think the question I asked about macOberon was irrelevant. Modula-2
is as close as you're going to get to Oberon, and I have seen many questions
about it on the list before.larry@TITAN.TSD.ARLUT.UTEXAS.EDU (Larry Maturo) (05/13/91)
Ignore the flamers. There was nothing wrong with your request. I hope some kind soul can help you. As for the flamers, if yelling at you is the most important thing they have to do they are sorry people indeed. +-----------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ | | | | Larry Maturo | Opinions expressed herein must be | | Applied Research Laboratories | yours, neither I nor my employer have | | University of Texas at Austin | any. | | P.O. Box 8029 +----------------------------------------+ | Austin, Texas 78713-8029 | | | | When you're as great as I am it's hard | | larry @titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu | to be modest, but I succeed where | | | others fail. | +-----------------------------------+----------------------------------------+
ZAWADZME%WBLYC@dupont.COM ("Mark E. Zawadzki, (05/13/91)
Don't feel badly. Just realize that thier are peoiple who try to hide their ignorance of the answer by calling the question "irrelavant" or "stupid". To those whom ozmandias feels the need to apologize to: 1) BITNET, etc is an educational network.... educate, don't humiliate 2) If you feel these questions are a waste of yourtime, don't waste more by responding. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Zawadzki -- E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Zawadzki -- E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Inc.
ZAWADZME%WBLYC@dupont.COM ("Mark E. Zawadzki, (05/13/91)
Forgive the mispellings, etc. in my previous note. I was struck down by an errant ^Z. Anyway, to continue my flame on flames... To those attacking ozmandias... Not everyone is as fortunate as you - all knowing and having all the latest resources. Assume nothing, and leave policing NEWS to the moderator. =-=+ =-=+ =-=+ =-=+ =-=+ =-=+ =-=+ =-=+ =-=+ =-=+ | Mark E. Zawadzki | "A rolling stone WTW & Associates | gathers no wool" c/o E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company | Opus Information Systems | 300 DuPont Blvd. | Waynesboro, Va. 22980 | "Nobody Knows the Bubbles | I've streamed" ___________________________________________| L. Welk (posthumous) email to "ZAWADZME%WBLYC%dupont.com@RELAY.CS.NET" "I CAN SPELL - IT'S MY FINGERS TAHT ARE DYSLEXIC!" =-=+ =-=+ =-=+ =-=+ =-=+ =-=+ =-=+ =-=+ =-=+ =-=+