Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 22:48:20 PM -0800, Paul Lesniewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Actually, I *did* understand it and acknowledge it, _and_ then I > > said it was no excuse. No need to insist on this. > > I insist because although it might not be an excuse, it IS a factor > that should be gi

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-31 Thread Steve Brown
Paul- Thanks for trying to defend me and the FOSS community. :-) Paul/Marco- This thread is dead. I was a jerk. I apologized. End of story. Please take the generalizations and rants about FOSS to some other list. This list is about SquirrelMail only. :-) Steve ---

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Lesniewski
> > No maybe not, but everyone like yourself who has jumped on this so > > hard is being very unfair in not understanding or acknowledging that > > the request was inappropriately sent... > > Actually, I *did* understand it and acknowledge it, _and_ then I said it > was no excuse. No need to insist

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-30 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 00:59:34 AM -0800, Paul Lesniewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > No maybe not, but everyone like yourself who has jumped on this so > hard is being very unfair in not understanding or acknowledging that > the request was inappropriately sent... Actually, I *did* understand it

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Lesniewski
On 1/30/07, Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Paul Lesniewski wrote: > >> Had he just replied "I am very sorry, madam, but this is a personal > >> address, you can only receive support through the mailing list, please > >> don't ask here anymore, period" instead of deliberately

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-30 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi, Paul Lesniewski wrote: >> Had he just replied "I am very sorry, madam, but this is a personal >> address, you can only receive support through the mailing list, please >> don't ask here anymore, period" instead of deliberately sending the same > > That's NOT all there is to it. To say that is

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Lesniewski
> > The point is, I think, that this person crossed the line between > > asking for help in the right place and the wrong place. > > This is no excuse at all (as it was already said) to react in _that_ > manner. No maybe not, but everyone like yourself who has jumped on this so hard is being very

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-29 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 17:17:02 PM -0800, Paul Lesniewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The point is, I think, that this person crossed the line between > asking for help in the right place and the wrong place. This is no excuse at all (as it was already said) to react in _that_ manner. >... > The

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-28 Thread kmnair
On 1/29/07, Paul Lesniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Once in a blue moon, someone will post a thread on our lists that says > "thank you guys for what you do", and those rare moments are truly > invaluable to those of us who get a constant barrage of emails that > are sometimes much worse

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-28 Thread Paul Lesniewski
On 1/26/07, M. Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 11:58:05 AM -0800, Dean Blackburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > Looking at this thread, and then the last paragraph of the wiki > > page, I just have to shake my head... > > > > "Last, but not least, contact the Squirrel

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-26 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 11:58:05 AM -0800, Dean Blackburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Looking at this thread, and then the last paragraph of the wiki > page, I just have to shake my head... > > "Last, but not least, contact the SquirrelMail Project Team, which > can give you advice for free. Please

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-26 Thread Steve Brown
On 1/26/07, Marc Groot Koerkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Stephany, > > Steve is absolutely right. If you have read our web page or manual you > would have known that: > 1: SquirrelMail is an imap client; > 2: We are developers of SquirrelMail and do not host mail; > 3: SquirrelMail is an

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-26 Thread Jay Chandler
Dean Blackburn wrote: > Were we all *really* supposed to get this? > > >From what I can tell, a user in a critical support state asked > (without a lot of technical finesse, sure) for help politely, and DID > receive what I would call a rude response. I get the "attempted > connection to humor"

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-26 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Dean Blackburn > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 1:58 PM > To: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired! >

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-26 Thread Rainer Sokoll
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:41:26PM +0100, Marc Groot Koerkamp wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Steve Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:00 AM > > To: Steph / Coletta Contracting Company Inc. > > Subject: Re: Squirrel Email Support > > > > > >> No

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-26 Thread Dean Blackburn
Were we all *really* supposed to get this? From what I can tell, a user in a critical support state asked (without a lot of technical finesse, sure) for help politely, and DID receive what I would call a rude response. I get the "attempted connection to humor" of what followed, but would this

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-26 Thread Steve Huston
On 01/26/2007 12:41 PM, Marc Groot Koerkamp wrote: > Hello Stephany, What. The. (you know). Bahahahhaa... Thanks for sharing, Marc.. I know I needed a little pick-me-up on this frigid Friday :> -- Steve Huston - W2SRH - Unix Sysadmin, Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences Princeton University |

Re: [SM-USERS] Steve Brown is a jerk!! He should be fired!

2007-01-26 Thread Marc Groot Koerkamp
Hello Stephany, Steve is absolutely right. If you have read our web page or manual you would have known that: 1: SquirrelMail is an imap client; 2: We are developers of SquirrelMail and do not host mail; 3: SquirrelMail is an opensource project with only volunteers and no people to fire; 4: We hav