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

[Richard Maher]

Hi Bill,

"Bill Gunshannon" <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote in message
news:7kgecgF38rgroU1 at mid.individual.net...
> 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.

Yes, it looks like he is clearly French, and quite possibly, Parisian so I
think the OP is taking the surly disposition and abrupt demeanour far too
personally. Regardless, I see little point in pursuing him further as he's
only going to surrender anyway :-)

> 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

Cheers Richard Maher (Who likes most of France, all of Brittany, and even
most French people I've known - But couldn't resist :-)

(And suprised to see that Google "feeling lucky" search for "french military
victories" still turning up the same result after all these years :-)
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