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Here is the latest comments from a user (?) of one of the freeware programs that I wrote and distributed for a couple of years to several hundred thousand users: "hey you idiot, make a good program for once, that is at least compatible with Windows XP. I would appreciate if idiots like you werent tought to program or helped by other good programmers who wasted their time on a good for nothing moron like you." I guess, this message goes well with the survey about "Programmer's egos"... :) I am not sure how I feel about it. Sad, I guess... I am not sure how to deal with someone like this ether... Do I ignore him, do I post a polite response or do I go off on the person? What do you think? Thanks.
"hey you idiot, make a good program for once, that is at least compatible with Windows XP. I would appreciate if idiots like you werent tought to program or helped by other good programmers who wasted their time on a good for nothing moron like you." Dear Sirs, Thank you for your interest in our product. We always welcome feedback as this is our primary way of improving the software. We regret that the software didn't meet your expectations and will be looking into this problem. Once again, thank you for your valuable input. Konstantin Vasserman P.S. If you wish to donate funds to help us purchase the computer equipment and software required to test all versions of the operating systems, please send funds to: Your Girlfriend's Porn Site 666 Everyone Knows Her Street. Moron, UR 49309 USA Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.
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"hey you idiot, make a good program for once, that is at least compatible with Windows XP. I would appreciate if idiots like you werent tought to program or helped by other good programmers who wasted their time on a good for nothing moron like you." Dear Sirs, Thank you for your interest in our product. We always welcome feedback as this is our primary way of improving the software. We regret that the software didn't meet your expectations and will be looking into this problem. Once again, thank you for your valuable input. Konstantin Vasserman P.S. If you wish to donate funds to help us purchase the computer equipment and software required to test all versions of the operating systems, please send funds to: Your Girlfriend's Porn Site 666 Everyone Knows Her Street. Moron, UR 49309 USA Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.
LOL :) Thank you.
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Here is the latest comments from a user (?) of one of the freeware programs that I wrote and distributed for a couple of years to several hundred thousand users: "hey you idiot, make a good program for once, that is at least compatible with Windows XP. I would appreciate if idiots like you werent tought to program or helped by other good programmers who wasted their time on a good for nothing moron like you." I guess, this message goes well with the survey about "Programmer's egos"... :) I am not sure how I feel about it. Sad, I guess... I am not sure how to deal with someone like this ether... Do I ignore him, do I post a polite response or do I go off on the person? What do you think? Thanks.
Post that luser's email address in Usenet, and subscribe him to various porn sites' "email newsletters" (which will likely result in XXX spam). :laugh: --Mike-- http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/ "Not our fault we are intellectually superior to the rest of the office." -- Paul Watson in the Lounge, 12/12/2001 Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm Big fan of Alyson Hannigan.
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Post that luser's email address in Usenet, and subscribe him to various porn sites' "email newsletters" (which will likely result in XXX spam). :laugh: --Mike-- http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/ "Not our fault we are intellectually superior to the rest of the office." -- Paul Watson in the Lounge, 12/12/2001 Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm Big fan of Alyson Hannigan.
He will probably love to get all those XXX mails. According to his follow up post he is a one very sick individual... :)
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<rant> I would personally respond with an 'updated' version of your program which purports to fix the bug running under XP. Instead, it would contain a virus to fuck his computer up big style. A bit harsh maybe but I've been in this situation before and it *really* annoys me when I've sweated blood over a piece of software which I have given away for free and people rudely complain when it doesn't do what they expect it to. Kinda like when people complain about inaccuracies in the articles here - are they forgetting that this stuff is all free and people are only doing this to help them. </rant> James Spibey I love the word naked, it's brilliant isn't it, 'naked'. When I was a kid I used to write the word naked on a bit of paper hundreds of times and rub my face in it - Jeff, Coupling, BBC2
Thank you for suggestion. :) I think you are bringing up a whole new theme into this. I mean the whole "freeware" issue when you spend all your time making something for people and give it to them for free and then you get slapped in the face by a bunch of f**kers like the one who posted crap on my message board. I have a good friend who thinks that you should never ever give anything for free, because people should never get something they did not earn. When people get staff they did not pay for (one way or the other) they get spoiled and corrupted... My ventures in freeware world are full of examples of people abusing the good thing and turning into this monsters who expect you to keep giving them stuff. And if you refuse to give - they demand it like you owe them something. It is truly amazing... and very frustrating...
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Here is the latest comments from a user (?) of one of the freeware programs that I wrote and distributed for a couple of years to several hundred thousand users: "hey you idiot, make a good program for once, that is at least compatible with Windows XP. I would appreciate if idiots like you werent tought to program or helped by other good programmers who wasted their time on a good for nothing moron like you." I guess, this message goes well with the survey about "Programmer's egos"... :) I am not sure how I feel about it. Sad, I guess... I am not sure how to deal with someone like this ether... Do I ignore him, do I post a polite response or do I go off on the person? What do you think? Thanks.
First of all, this useless person is the idiot if he thinks this stuff can be strictly "taught". But then he would not be crying and moaning about a program he could not possibly write or even fix, if he could have written it himself in the first place. So why would you give a sh*t what he thinks? Banish him from your server and be done with it. But first suggest he invest in a spell-checker (not freeware). JMHO. BB
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"hey you idiot, make a good program for once, that is at least compatible with Windows XP. I would appreciate if idiots like you werent tought to program or helped by other good programmers who wasted their time on a good for nothing moron like you." Dear Sirs, Thank you for your interest in our product. We always welcome feedback as this is our primary way of improving the software. We regret that the software didn't meet your expectations and will be looking into this problem. Once again, thank you for your valuable input. Konstantin Vasserman P.S. If you wish to donate funds to help us purchase the computer equipment and software required to test all versions of the operating systems, please send funds to: Your Girlfriend's Porn Site 666 Everyone Knows Her Street. Moron, UR 49309 USA Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.
Tim Smith wrote: Your Girlfriend's Porn Site 666 Everyone Knows Her Street. Moron, UR 49309 USA I'm going to use that ! Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I live in Bob's HungOut now
Colin is a big fan of William Goldberg and Frank Tipler
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Here is the latest comments from a user (?) of one of the freeware programs that I wrote and distributed for a couple of years to several hundred thousand users: "hey you idiot, make a good program for once, that is at least compatible with Windows XP. I would appreciate if idiots like you werent tought to program or helped by other good programmers who wasted their time on a good for nothing moron like you." I guess, this message goes well with the survey about "Programmer's egos"... :) I am not sure how I feel about it. Sad, I guess... I am not sure how to deal with someone like this ether... Do I ignore him, do I post a polite response or do I go off on the person? What do you think? Thanks.
Konstantin Vasserman wrote: Do I ignore him, do I post a polite response or do I go off on the person? How dare he do that to a CPian ! Konstantin, Just Send me his email ! If he has used remailers Cheif Inspector Wluff can track him down ! And I'll personally have someone visit him for you ! :-) But seriously the moment you release a program in any from expect abuse. I released an ultra Kewl and useful program on CNET a couple of years ago and the only payment I asked for was a preformatted thankyou letter "if they desired" to be sent and I got more abuse than thankyous :-((( So I haven't released anymore Freeware ! Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I live in Bob's HungOut now
Colin is a big fan of William Goldberg and Frank Tipler
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First of all, this useless person is the idiot if he thinks this stuff can be strictly "taught". But then he would not be crying and moaning about a program he could not possibly write or even fix, if he could have written it himself in the first place. So why would you give a sh*t what he thinks? Banish him from your server and be done with it. But first suggest he invest in a spell-checker (not freeware). JMHO. BB
Hi. ;) I absolutely agree with you. I should just ignore this moron. It's just very difficult to do sometimes... :) Thanks.
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Konstantin Vasserman wrote: Do I ignore him, do I post a polite response or do I go off on the person? How dare he do that to a CPian ! Konstantin, Just Send me his email ! If he has used remailers Cheif Inspector Wluff can track him down ! And I'll personally have someone visit him for you ! :-) But seriously the moment you release a program in any from expect abuse. I released an ultra Kewl and useful program on CNET a couple of years ago and the only payment I asked for was a preformatted thankyou letter "if they desired" to be sent and I got more abuse than thankyous :-((( So I haven't released anymore Freeware ! Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I live in Bob's HungOut now
Colin is a big fan of William Goldberg and Frank Tipler
Well, I am in the process of removing of my software from the Internet. I've had about enough of this stuff. Anything else I ever write will be commercial software. At least then I will have an incentive to listen to crap from my users... :) Thank you for support. :)
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Here is the latest comments from a user (?) of one of the freeware programs that I wrote and distributed for a couple of years to several hundred thousand users: "hey you idiot, make a good program for once, that is at least compatible with Windows XP. I would appreciate if idiots like you werent tought to program or helped by other good programmers who wasted their time on a good for nothing moron like you." I guess, this message goes well with the survey about "Programmer's egos"... :) I am not sure how I feel about it. Sad, I guess... I am not sure how to deal with someone like this ether... Do I ignore him, do I post a polite response or do I go off on the person? What do you think? Thanks.
From reading your other replies to other people's responses, I feel you are being far to leanient on this guy. First, I would send him an email telling him very politely that you appreciate the feedback, but were unable to find his order in your database, and require him to send you the receipt he would have received after purchasing the product. (yes I know it was freeware, but make out it wasn't). Obviously he will reply with yet another strongly worded email - but this was the intention. Now send one further email to him under you name saying that you know he is a pirate and you are reporting him to the B.L.A. (note: that stands for Bob Lovers Anonymous ;)) Then, leave it for about a week before initiating an extensive personal data collection process using as many government and/or news web sites as possible, and maybe a few phone calls to his local council too. Find out how many years this guy has been living at his current address; find out if he has ever withheld taxes; find out when he last made a credit application; find out how many illegitimate children he has fathered; etc, etc. Posing as a public liquidation officer or corporate balif will generally let you have access to this kind of data with no real questions asked. When you enough data to be able to sucessfully scare the sh*t out of him with your knowledge, write a carefully worded - but strong - email indicating that you have sufficient proof that he is a major international Intellectual Property Violator, and you have referred his case to your superiors to be handled immeadiately. Then edit your email account settings so the name reads "Templeman, D."; the email address reads "d.templeman@bla.gov"; and set the the reply address to one you own). Make sure to sign your name at the base of the email like so: Officer Templeman, Ricahard D. Chief of External Investigations B.L.A. Mark it as Important and Confidential and then hit Send. Sit back and wait for the reply... :-D ________________ David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk "I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves" - August Strindberg
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From reading your other replies to other people's responses, I feel you are being far to leanient on this guy. First, I would send him an email telling him very politely that you appreciate the feedback, but were unable to find his order in your database, and require him to send you the receipt he would have received after purchasing the product. (yes I know it was freeware, but make out it wasn't). Obviously he will reply with yet another strongly worded email - but this was the intention. Now send one further email to him under you name saying that you know he is a pirate and you are reporting him to the B.L.A. (note: that stands for Bob Lovers Anonymous ;)) Then, leave it for about a week before initiating an extensive personal data collection process using as many government and/or news web sites as possible, and maybe a few phone calls to his local council too. Find out how many years this guy has been living at his current address; find out if he has ever withheld taxes; find out when he last made a credit application; find out how many illegitimate children he has fathered; etc, etc. Posing as a public liquidation officer or corporate balif will generally let you have access to this kind of data with no real questions asked. When you enough data to be able to sucessfully scare the sh*t out of him with your knowledge, write a carefully worded - but strong - email indicating that you have sufficient proof that he is a major international Intellectual Property Violator, and you have referred his case to your superiors to be handled immeadiately. Then edit your email account settings so the name reads "Templeman, D."; the email address reads "d.templeman@bla.gov"; and set the the reply address to one you own). Make sure to sign your name at the base of the email like so: Officer Templeman, Ricahard D. Chief of External Investigations B.L.A. Mark it as Important and Confidential and then hit Send. Sit back and wait for the reply... :-D ________________ David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk "I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves" - August Strindberg
:omg: Remind me never to piss you off :) James
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Here is the latest comments from a user (?) of one of the freeware programs that I wrote and distributed for a couple of years to several hundred thousand users: "hey you idiot, make a good program for once, that is at least compatible with Windows XP. I would appreciate if idiots like you werent tought to program or helped by other good programmers who wasted their time on a good for nothing moron like you." I guess, this message goes well with the survey about "Programmer's egos"... :) I am not sure how I feel about it. Sad, I guess... I am not sure how to deal with someone like this ether... Do I ignore him, do I post a polite response or do I go off on the person? What do you think? Thanks.
My god, there is so much here to be appalled at... This is, of course, the kind of person who would complain if you handed them a stack of 20 dollar bills and they weren't sorted in alphabetic order.... My call is to ignore. You can cast pearls before swine but a swine will never recognise pearls... Be proud of your other several hundred thousand users who are happy with your freeware or (if not) were at least polite enough to move on! Rob :-)) Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net
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From reading your other replies to other people's responses, I feel you are being far to leanient on this guy. First, I would send him an email telling him very politely that you appreciate the feedback, but were unable to find his order in your database, and require him to send you the receipt he would have received after purchasing the product. (yes I know it was freeware, but make out it wasn't). Obviously he will reply with yet another strongly worded email - but this was the intention. Now send one further email to him under you name saying that you know he is a pirate and you are reporting him to the B.L.A. (note: that stands for Bob Lovers Anonymous ;)) Then, leave it for about a week before initiating an extensive personal data collection process using as many government and/or news web sites as possible, and maybe a few phone calls to his local council too. Find out how many years this guy has been living at his current address; find out if he has ever withheld taxes; find out when he last made a credit application; find out how many illegitimate children he has fathered; etc, etc. Posing as a public liquidation officer or corporate balif will generally let you have access to this kind of data with no real questions asked. When you enough data to be able to sucessfully scare the sh*t out of him with your knowledge, write a carefully worded - but strong - email indicating that you have sufficient proof that he is a major international Intellectual Property Violator, and you have referred his case to your superiors to be handled immeadiately. Then edit your email account settings so the name reads "Templeman, D."; the email address reads "d.templeman@bla.gov"; and set the the reply address to one you own). Make sure to sign your name at the base of the email like so: Officer Templeman, Ricahard D. Chief of External Investigations B.L.A. Mark it as Important and Confidential and then hit Send. Sit back and wait for the reply... :-D ________________ David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk "I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves" - August Strindberg
OMG ! You must start the David Wulff wrote: Officer Templeman, Ricahard D. Chief of External Investigations B.L.A. stuff for real David, Tell what can I do to help ! :-) It would be an outright Pleasure to assist you ! :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I live in Bob's HungOut now
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My god, there is so much here to be appalled at... This is, of course, the kind of person who would complain if you handed them a stack of 20 dollar bills and they weren't sorted in alphabetic order.... My call is to ignore. You can cast pearls before swine but a swine will never recognise pearls... Be proud of your other several hundred thousand users who are happy with your freeware or (if not) were at least polite enough to move on! Rob :-)) Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net
Rob Manderson wrote: My call is to ignore. You can cast pearls before swine but a swine will never recognise pearls... Nice quote Rob, Hey where are you in OZ, From one old coder to another, I worked with BIG, Dave Pauley in Sydney for a while, "Do you know of him ?" Oh yeah is it OK if I get VMTU to promote mindprobes tomorrow ? "I don't" want any reciprocation, OK ! I have had mindprobes installed for quite sometime now but often find the Trivia Way Way out of my depth. Unfortunatly and I never seem to log in at the right time, darn it ! Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I live in Bob's HungOut now
Colin is a big fan of William Goldberg and Frank Tipler and of course Billy Connerly
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Rob Manderson wrote: My call is to ignore. You can cast pearls before swine but a swine will never recognise pearls... Nice quote Rob, Hey where are you in OZ, From one old coder to another, I worked with BIG, Dave Pauley in Sydney for a while, "Do you know of him ?" Oh yeah is it OK if I get VMTU to promote mindprobes tomorrow ? "I don't" want any reciprocation, OK ! I have had mindprobes installed for quite sometime now but often find the Trivia Way Way out of my depth. Unfortunatly and I never seem to log in at the right time, darn it ! Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I live in Bob's HungOut now
Colin is a big fan of William Goldberg and Frank Tipler and of course Billy Connerly
Colin, I'm in Melbourne :-) Where in gods own country are you? I spent a fantastic month in the North Island a year or so ago... and will someday repeat the feat in the South Island... I'd migrate to NZ if I was convinced I could make a living there... I'm happy for you to VMTU Mindprobes as long as evil things don't happen :-) Hey, I've seen you here a while now so I trust :-) hmmm, try two hours earlier - the majority of our schedule is Australian peak times... and if you happen to see Robbie online - it's me Rob :-))) Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net
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Colin, I'm in Melbourne :-) Where in gods own country are you? I spent a fantastic month in the North Island a year or so ago... and will someday repeat the feat in the South Island... I'd migrate to NZ if I was convinced I could make a living there... I'm happy for you to VMTU Mindprobes as long as evil things don't happen :-) Hey, I've seen you here a while now so I trust :-) hmmm, try two hours earlier - the majority of our schedule is Australian peak times... and if you happen to see Robbie online - it's me Rob :-))) Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net
Damn I said 2 hours earlier - when I meant two hours later... Sorry... I'm too used to seeing the time difference based in Melbourne instead of from Auckland or Wellington.. Rob :-) Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net
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Here is the latest comments from a user (?) of one of the freeware programs that I wrote and distributed for a couple of years to several hundred thousand users: "hey you idiot, make a good program for once, that is at least compatible with Windows XP. I would appreciate if idiots like you werent tought to program or helped by other good programmers who wasted their time on a good for nothing moron like you." I guess, this message goes well with the survey about "Programmer's egos"... :) I am not sure how I feel about it. Sad, I guess... I am not sure how to deal with someone like this ether... Do I ignore him, do I post a polite response or do I go off on the person? What do you think? Thanks.
Konstantin Vasserman wrote: What do you think? Personally I would also feel sad about the whole affair. I would get angry too but at the end of the day I would be pretty hurt. In my opinion if someone downloads a freeware app and does not like it then they have no right to write such a non-productive criticism. By all means they can write back and inform you of various bugs or better ways of doing things, but not what that idiot wrote. Frankly that guy sounds like he has something else against you or is just lashing out at the nearest person to come to mind. I would however not write back to him (funny how I automatically assume it is a guy and not a woman) unless it was to genuinely ask what problems he had with the app. He might calm down and write back what the bug was, at least that is useful. If he answers back negatively though then forget about the whole affair. I would avoid being sarcastic or nasty in your reply email as frankly then you are simply sinking to his level. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge
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Thank you for suggestion. :) I think you are bringing up a whole new theme into this. I mean the whole "freeware" issue when you spend all your time making something for people and give it to them for free and then you get slapped in the face by a bunch of f**kers like the one who posted crap on my message board. I have a good friend who thinks that you should never ever give anything for free, because people should never get something they did not earn. When people get staff they did not pay for (one way or the other) they get spoiled and corrupted... My ventures in freeware world are full of examples of people abusing the good thing and turning into this monsters who expect you to keep giving them stuff. And if you refuse to give - they demand it like you owe them something. It is truly amazing... and very frustrating...
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Damn I said 2 hours earlier - when I meant two hours later... Sorry... I'm too used to seeing the time difference based in Melbourne instead of from Auckland or Wellington.. Rob :-) Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net
Hi Rob, I'm at a little beach town called Mt-Maunganui, I haven't seen a true C++ person since I got back into coding, 3.5 yrs ago .I'm right into this Internet stuff these days, these collaborative type efforts etc are real Kool. :-) I use to stay at the Essodon Hotel a lot years ago right near the train station, and there is a 7/11 on a corner there. They had strippers there one night a week and some of them could have been Olympic Gymnasts, mate. :-) What I really liked about Melbourne was the Trams, you could have a few beers and just jump on one Fantastic Stuff Mate. What I didnt like about Melbourne was that there were 4 seasons in every day while I was there. You never knew how to dress, one moment it was stinking hot and the next it was blowing a gale, and then it would start pouring down with rain. If I told you who I worked for in Melbourne, you probably wouldn't trust me anymore to be honest! So I wont post it here online, as I'd loose all the good CPian friends I've made real quickly ! Send me a private email and I'll tell you mate :-) Hey does the Australian still have a great technology section on Tuesdays ? There website is pretty garbled and doesn't really show what the printed media does ? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I live in Bob's HungOut now
Colin is a big fan of William Goldberg and Frank Tipler and of course Billy Connerly