29 Mar 2002 fejj   » (Master)

Step AWAY from the crackpipe...

Had to deal with this loser today.

Yes, Qpopper is disabling the account because it can tell you are using telnet. Uh huh. Riiiight. Get a clue, retard.

My favourite bit is when he decides to prove that every other email client can access this disabled POP server by setting up fetchmail to connect to a completely different POP server altogether.

I've been having to deal with a ton of retard users lately. Yesterday I had to deal with some guy that claimed Evolution couldn't login to his POP server for some reason or another. I asked him to verify that he had his account settings right, specifically a particular part (which I forget) and he kept telling me I had no idea what I was talking about. He kept bitching to me all day. At one point he even sent me an email claiming that the reason for Tech Support was because developers were idiots and users like himself knew it all (I'm serious, I can dig it up if you like). Finally about an hour before I left for home, I get an email by him saying I was right all along, he had misconfigured his account.

Note to users out there: Please. The developer of the software knows more about the software than you do. If he/she asks you to try something, don't come back and tell them they don't know what they're talking about. First, you won't make them want to help you more and secondly, you're almost guarenteed to be wrong about them being wrong. This doesn't mean that you can't offer suggestions/ideas, but don't try to play like you're smarter than the developer.

Mono SPARC: For those wondering how my SPARC port is coming with the mono interp, it's semi-working at this stage. It passes 60 or 70 some-odd percent of the tests in the test suite. Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to work on it in the last 2 weeks, but I plan to do some SPARC assembly hacking action this weekend ;-)

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