Please don flame proof clothing before reading this !! <BEGIN RANT MODE> Bye bye then Peter.
I think your attitude sucks (to be quite brutally honest) but you have made your choice to go, then so be it. I think your hardware posts are pretty tedious - but I'm not into hardware, but I still get them and all the replies, 99% of which are of no interest to me. I'm still here because I can contribute something in other respects. Maybe you think that everything on the list has to be QL/QDOS/SMQ/Q40/Q60/QPC (!) related but for the benefit of those of us on the list who do not have access to the Internet through a QL type device and/or software, then how exactly off topic is advice on avoiding the plagues and pitfalls of *having* to use such horrible things as PCs ? I for one am glad to see discussions on virusses - especially if it means that other people on this list using inferior hardware (ie PCs) can avoid sending them to me, and the rest of us - the majority I suspect - who access this list from a PC. The PC is a fact of life and no matter how much we like the QL, it is not, and never has been, mainstream - much as I would like to have seen it. It was ahead of its time, and shafted too. I for one, found the arguments re QPC or Q40/Q60 and which one was a real QL system pretty tedious, small minded and un-necessary. It still took up a lot of bandwidth on this list, in QL Toady etc - but I didn't cancel my subscription to QL Today. Because of the recent discussions on 'flo flo', I was able to see that I had a suspicious email this morning, and true to form, there was a virus attached, so someone on the list is still infected and sending it out. Maybe you are using Q40/Q60 and can avoid these things, but most of us have to take extreme care - especially those of us who read this list at work. (The virus was intercepted and deleted by our software, but others on the list might not be so lucky.) Maybe you even want those of us not using your hardware to catch the virusses on the go just now - so you can tell us all how wonderful Q40/Q60 is. Take your ball and go home then. <END RANT MODE> Now, having said all that, regardless of whether you re-join or not, and I'll be glad to see you return, I sincerely wish you every success with sales and development of Q40/Q60. One day, I hope to be able to have one - wife permitting of course. Good Luck. Sorry about that rant above everyone, but this tedious attitude from some people that 'only their way is right' gets on my t*ts ! Regards, Norman. (Having a somewhat bad day already - sorry!) ------------------------------------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com ------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Peter Graf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ql-users] ms-users-and-smalltalk-list Hi folks, I find it absolutely OK to have some off-topic mails on this list now and then. But in the last weeks there has been a neverending *huge* flood of absolutely non QL-related traffic. PC's, Microsoft, the related software and the related viruses and the related problems will never end, and there are enough forums where they can be discussed. There is no reason why these forums are not used, and the ql-users list is constantly abused instead. Why don't you open a ms-users-and-smalltalk-list? Please see that I'm not talking about just a few mails now and then - that's fine by me! I'm talking about floods of mails. The consequence is, that I will now leave the list, because I don't have the time to handle this anymore. I'll unsubscribe after this mail. All the best Peter This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
