Paul B. Gallagher Aug 26 Chris Ilias is apparently too distracted by his other work to read carefully and understand that this is not a personal attack, so I'm reposting it without the word he's misconstruing. I hope he reads it correctly this time and lets it though.
Patrick Turner wrote: > Ed Mullen > Aug 24 > Ray_Net pounded out : > - show quoted text - > Because the OP is ill-informed and/or clueless about the Web and how it > works. > - show quoted text - > > Above we have the breathtakingly helpful reply by someone unable to > make any contribution to better use of SeaMonkey, AFAIAC. We surely > all enjoy helpful advice to make us all understand the Web better, > and expressed in simple language without needing a university degree. > SeaMonkey NERDS are sort of like the brave professorial types who > might stand up to give a lecture for 1/2 an hour without any member > of his audience having any idea what he is saying. I'm sure you've > been at colleges and schools where teachers put you off to sleep. Actually, Ray_Net has made many contributions to better use of SeaMonkey over the years, but he is clearly unwilling to help with your specific issue within the specific terms and conditions that you have established. Its all OK, and I wasn't here to witness the varying levels of skills with SM which others possess. I think I solved my own problem when I found out myself how to insert images at custom size I want, and finding Arial set at 13 is most easily read by most other ppl, etc. If I may be permitted an analogy... I never hold grudges long despite having full license to be a Grumm Pee Olde Bar Stud. Some users like to use radios, but they are unconcerned with the innards. They just want to turn them on, fiddle with the tuner and volume, and listen, end of story. A few hobbyists want to know more, to design and build their own radios, but that's not you. Maybe you don't know me, because I have build very fine AM and FM radios using vacuum tubes which produce lower IMD/THD noise, and better music than anything else designed by accountants of companies. I like listening to radio more than I like putting up with ppl who know not much. That's a hard nasty thing to say, but while alive I tried to inform or make ppl laugh, and with shielas there was further you could go without saying a word, except "Gee, that felt good" etc, etc, etc. You've come here to a room full of geeks who understand what's going on "under the hood," some who have built their own radios by hand, and asked technical questions that must be answered in technical terms, but refused to accept any of the several helpful answers because they were couched in technical terms. Hmm, me, refused accept? Shock horror, why? too much bullshit instead of real world talk? Maybe not much point analyzing who said what to who because apart from trifling page color issues, i solved my own complaints about SM. Most of us have smiled or chuckled but kept our mouths shut, knowing your problems are unsolvable on these terms, but a few have tried vainly to help and a few have expressed their frustration. Now you complain that a geek is frustrated, and post yet another long question that can only be answered in technical terms but must not be. It's time for you to choose. You're entitled to be a hobbyist, and you're entitled to be a user, but you can't demand user answers to hobbyist questions. This isn't Ray_Net's fault. > But I digress. ... Oh well. OK, it wasn't Ray's fault. Lets get over it. If I had a dollar for each time I was misquoted or burned to a crisp at rec.audio.tubes between 2001 and now, I'd be stoinkingly rich. I wrote more than everyone else put together, and to answer most questions I put up a 55MB website. I find I can make mistakes, and if a man makes none, then he usually doesn't make much of anything. I'm now about happy with SM which I cannot expect to be perfect. The instructions about how to SM should be as easy as turning on the radio, tuning a station, adjusting volume and maybe tone, and enjoying the composition, especially if Mozart was involved. Patrick Turner. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
