[wellylug] [Extremely OT]

Cliff Pratt enkidu at cliffp.com
Fri Jan 28 20:38:44 NZDT 2005


jumbophut wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:36:58 +0800, Hong Chyr wrote:
> 
>>Tony, thanks for the suggestions and all. But I think the "quick answers" are very much part of Linux/free speech spirit. As long as we can keep it objective and not personal, eh?
>>
> 
> Okay, let's keep it objective...
> 
> My suggestion was that we find out about the existence of a MSWindows
> list, so that we can refer people to it for the quick answers you
> mention, and keep the traffic off the LINUX user group list.  If it
> was just the one Windows question, it wouldn't be worth it, but there
> have been a few, and I didn't sign up to the list to provide Windows
> support.
> 
> I'm not suggesting we be hostile (and I think I was downright friendly
> in my last post), but instead gently encourage people wanting to ask
> Windows questions to go to the appropriate places:
> <http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx>
> <http://support.microsoft.com/select/default.aspx?target=search>
> 
> Does anybody else wish to add anything more local?
> 
> If those links aren't doing the job for you, by all means complain to
> the folks you bought the product from, or change products.
> 
> There we go -- community service completed.  It took me a minute of googling.
> 
Ha! I suppose that a single email will get you a MVP like 
mine, eh?

There are no local Microsoft lists that I know of, but it's 
surprising the number of NZers that appear on the Microsoft 
lists, either as helpers or as seekers of knowledge.

Cheers,

Cliff




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