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From: dalegass@dalcsug.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: modem troubles
Message-ID: <184@dalcsug.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Nov-87 23:40:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  8 23:40:00 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Nov-87 06:39:47 EST
References: <179@dalcsug.UUCP> <181@dalcsug.UUCP> <972@percival.UUCP>
Reply-To: dalegass@dalcsug.UUCP (Dale Michael Gass)
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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In article <972@percival.UUCP> gary@percival.UUCP (Gary Wells) writes:
>True.  Pose a unique enough problem, in excruciaitng but totally useless 
>detail, about a obscure bug, occuring at only one site, and the net does have
>a history of not helping.  It also was obviously not terribly difficult to 
>resolve, witness _your_ ablity to fix it.  There is an obvious solution, get off
>the net!

Well, excuuuuusee me.  I hate to start a flame of a flame of a flame chain,
but I really don't think this was called for.

I was having modem problems, and was simply looking for help.  And it turns
out that this problem is not quite so obscure, not occuring only at one
site.  When I posted this article, I received *four* responses from other
people having similar problems, and asking me to mail them any solutions
obtained from the net.

Since I have posted the resolution to my problem, I have received
five responses from these and other people *thanking* me for the solution of
the problem.

Just because the occasional article happens not to be of immediate interest
to you, or you haven't encountered the problem and take no interest in trying
to help, this is no reason to publicly rag at someone experiencing a real
problem.  Try hitting the 'n' key once in awhile--it *is* a fact of life
that you won't be interested or have a useful response for every article.

I don't think the fact that I was able to eventually fix it means that the
net couldn't have helped.  I'm sure there were people who have experienced
this problem before (as it seems to be prevalent in inexpensive hayes clones),
but either figured someone else would reply, or simply just couldn't be
bothered...

The detailed explanation of the problem is certainly more appropriate than
a brief overview, since these tend to be misinterpreted.

>get off the net!

I would suggest that articles posted simply for the sake of ragging at
a posting cause more of a problem than they resolve.

My two previous postings helped solve four or five people's modems problems.  
Mr. Wells' flame (and hence this response) help no one.

Sheeesshhh, don't some people have better things to do than playing net-cops?

-swabe