----- Original Message ----- From: "DT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well, ok so your 15. It's ok! I understand... Trying to impress the girls! I have not called you a name and I apologize to the other fellow. I did think he was calling me a newbie. So, to understand "/how to carry on a discussion on a mail list/" _From your example:_ Make your point one paragraph at a time. So, you can pick your flames and show how you're the superior race with degrading comments. Always Flame the person at the end in a way that is subtle but effective. Always claim that the other guy is just lying about real experience he may have had and covering it by "/Just reading the message boards/" and "/Not researching/". Put blame on "/children/" (coping mechanism for some kind of guilt maybe?) and make it seem "I'm so important.. .so popular" (filled mailbox, not enough time!) that I must be right in what I'm saying. Type A personalities! Got to love 'em or they drive normal people crazy. Obviously, this will go nowhere. You don't have to reply since I will not anymore and you're so busy and a reply is beneath you or whatever? Oh!... It still Lags regardless of what you've said. DT
All I'm going to say is I'm 24,with a baby and a wife.I do not fight on the internet.If you took my post as a flame....well ok....But I do know I've been playing since '99 and running multiple servers on different boxes and O/S's since 2002.Been a member of this list for that long as well.And currently I'm running a dual xeon 3.2 with 2 gigs of ram and SCSI hardrives hooked into the backbone with a 100mbps uplink speed.And as said in multiple previous post on this same mailing list I have NEVER seen ANY of my servers lag on that box due to 300+ pingers.It is a matter of one of two cases.You have overloaded boxes or not enough bandwidth to supply your players. But,like many admins that I trust their opinion on this list that I have seen reply to this list for quite awhile now,have said they don't have the same effects. And as far as the other parts of your posts I'm ignoring.On thing that did get me is you replying to people as "noobs","newbies" or whatever.This list is here for help not useless debates.I'm all up for a debate on this list about a situation or bug/problem until someone comes along insulting people and I bite my tongue and try to do the mature thing and not reply.This one instance wasn't the case.I never said you called me a name.Nor do I care if you do.I simply broke yours down by paragraph because there was so much there to respond to and it made more sense to do it that way. As far as a coping mechanism.Negative on that sir,you where acting like a child as you still are so I replied to you like one.And no I don't think I'm important.The only people I feel important too are my wife and child.I could care less what you think about me.And DT every reply you have put to this mailing list has been uninformed,arrogant and misjudged.Obviously you don't have the articulation to carry on a conversation without being "sarcastic" to someone. Oh!...MY servers still don't lag regardless of what you say.300 pingers welcome!(/sarcasim lol) BeNt _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
