[Info-vax] OT: The New Face of HP

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <00555878$0$1985$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> Carlos Marcano (chuckman78) wrote:
> 
>> to escalate things up. I believe that mailing list is the number one
>> authority in setting up software modems in Linux and I believe they
>> back up Mr. Vouters 100%. 
> 
> I am a distant observer on this. Shouldn't the volunteer have had a
> similar response "please go through the mailing list to report problems"
> instead of saying "please buy services from HP if you want me to look at
> it" ?

And of course, everyone is ignoring the fact that English isn't
his native language and that may resulted in his saying something
in a form that others might find abrasive.  I find the original
posters tone to be very abrasive and might have reacted the same
way although it is mnost likely that I would have just stopped 
responding to him at all.

bill

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