And it came to pass that Ben Bucksch wrote:
> Kenneth P. Ruppel wrote:
>
>> a) Stephen Donner never identified himself as a Netscape
>> employee.
>> No matter what his userid is, people are not mind-readers.
>
> An @netscape.com email address is quite clear. No
> mind-reading needed.
>
>> b) I found this newsgroup because it has the word "PUBLIC"
>> contained in it. I did NOT get here by looking for a
>> developer group.
>
> Yes, and you are wrong. Searching for a newsgroup by name,
> then somehow interpreting the name and posting with that
> assumption is wrong. You are supposed to read the charta of
> a group or at least browse through the group to see, if your
> post is appropriate.
>
>> c) N6.1 throws LOTS of unannounced curveballs -- the most
>> offensive of which is moving the mail and news to the C:
>> drive.
>
> It stores them in the "Application Data" folder that Windows
> tells it. MSIE's Cache is there, too, I think.
>
That's a really lame argument. No other program on my computer
ever tries to put stuff at that location: certainly Communicator
doesn't, and that's what the bulk of Mozilla users are used to.
If there's a good reason to use that location, I'd love to hear
it. But "The program [I] hate and refuse to use puts stuff
there" is hardly it.
>> It takes a long time to undo mistreating a User. If you
>> don't know how to handle a User, perhaps you're in the
>> wrong line of work.
>
> Again, users are wrong here. If you go to a fine restaurant
> and ask for fries with catchup to go (because, for some
> reason, you thought, it was a Burger King), people won't be
> nice either.
Only if it's a really badly run fine restaurant. The really
truly good ones will give you fries with ketchup, to go. And
charge you $12 for them. And make you wait for half an hour for
them.
Or they'll say, with a suitably apologetic face and tone, "Ohh,
I'm sorry, but we don' have french fries...but the pate is
excellent!"
Unless you're in England or France. They'll tell you to crawl
back into the gutter.
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
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