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I just got back to this thread.
Thank you to those who posted with support, and I'll continue to
subscribe.
I'll just have to remember not to respond if I'm having a bad day or
feeling particularly sarcastic!
Kath
Bluegenie2 wrote:
> Rainbow, you are fine

> Some people just have to grouch about everything, lol.
> But, yes, this newsgroup is for technical issues too, if they are sims
> related. I just tend not to reply to people wanting cracks and stuff
> like that.
> Heck I replied to someone requesting something with a comment about
> google and got harassed about that.
> If someone wants a crack bad enough then they can go search for it.
>
> "Rainbow" <kathadams@(nospam)mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:d35cdj$ja8$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> I honestly did not mean to offend anyone, indeed I have noted those
>> sort of responses before on this forum when posters ask for cracks
>> or key codes.
>> Plus I NEVER email anyone I don't know. If the question was asked in
>> a newsgroup, then it gets answered in a newsgroup. I realise this
>> one is usually used for telling stories, and not loaded with
>> technical requests, but the whole point of NG's is so that everyone
>> can see the answers and benefit?
>>
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>> I was also trying in a way to make jokes as I realise that lots of
>> you in this NG have been posting for a while, and know each other
>> well. It's sometimes hard for newbies to know where to put in their
>> twopennyworth when it sometimes looks rather cliquey. If I'm not
>> wanted, then I'll unsubscribe.
>> (I do take part in all the Outlook Express newsgroups (and others)
>> as an MVP - see my signature. But those are for problems with
>> OE/IE/Windows.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpintro )
>>
>> --
>> Kath Adams
>> MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)
>>
>> Madame Mim wrote:
>>> I think that Rainbow's post was very appropriate - a effortless and
>>> glib answer for a lazy and cheeky question.
>>>
>>>
>>> "noname" <hip_ster@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:nVk5e.31400$JL2.988819@twister.southeast.rr.com...
>>>>
>>>> "Madame Mim" <mad.mim@S.P.A.M.bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
>>>> news:VJi5e.3327$5F3.345@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>>>>> Besides which I really dislike these people that wander in and ask
>>>>> us to mail them something. It wasn't a question of where can I
>>>>> find, but rather -
>>>>> find and deliver to me the no cd crack. We are nobodies servants
>>>>> here, but people seem to think that we are some form of free shop.
>>>>> . .
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Posting a link to a crack would have been much more appropriate
>>>> than just "a crack".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> noname
--
Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)