On Thu, 29 May 2003 23:17:20 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > Greg Mayman wrote,
> .. > Yes, I understand what you're saying. Have you tried to talk to the > .. > "experts' at Compuserve about it? > Har, Har, Har, Har! > Compuserve forum SysOps, although quite knowledgable, are *volunteers* and do > not work for Compuserve. Even they have a problem getting information to > Compuserve personnel, and they make open jokes about it. Sorry. Sometimes I get off in a world of my own where things are better and more logical and I forget what the reasl world is like... > I posted the question on the Tapcis Forum (Tapcis is an e-mail program > written purely for Compuserve) and got two responses. One asked if I had any > non-ASCII characters in the message and the other person said I "need a > techie to exam the entire message." I'm never surprised at how basic their questions can be. But one must remember that they are used to dealing with idiots, most of the time. As an example which I am assured REALLY HAPPENED! (Is that possible? Of course it is) "My problem is that the cursor on the screen has disappeared." "What were you doing before it disappeared? What programs were you running?" "I was using Word for Windows to write a letter, then suddenly the cursor just disappeared." "OK. Now if you move the mouse around and click it, does any of the text get highlighted?" "No, the text is gone as well." "Is there anything on the screen?" "No." "Hmmm... maybe the cable to the monitor has come unpligged. Can you see whether it is still plugged in securely?" "No, it's a bit hard...." "Why is that?" "The lights have all gone out. I think we've got a blackout." "OK. I see. Now have you still got the boxes the computer came in? Right then pack everything up and take it back to where you bought it and tell them you are TOO F***ING STUPID TO OWN A COMPUTER!" Univ! from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia "Queen City of the South" 34:55S 138:36E http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/greg_mayman/default.htm -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
