Re: Opening Ports on Norton 2002

From: Morgan Sales (msalesDIESPAMMER_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 01/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 09:38:03 -0000

Mike wrote:
> "Morgan Sales" <msalesDIESPAMMER@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:bu956r$dj3uk$1@ID-109377.news.uni-berlin.de...
>> Mike wrote:
>> please help me anyway.
>>
>>> What a pompous arse!
>>
>> Resorting to name calling now?
>
> You are lucky you caught me in a good mood! I still consider you a
> pompous arse because you come in here asking for advice and then
> proceed to rubbish everyones opinion believing yours to be the only
> one that is either correct or matters.

Everyone's opinion? Wrong. I have no problem with anyone who puts their
point across in a polite and reasonable manner. For example NeoSadist's
reply.

> Your stock phrases seems to be
> "Thats a load of bollocks" or "Thats a load of crap". You ask others
> to provide evidence and back up their statements but the same rule
> does not seem to apply to you.

At no point has anyone asked me to provide evidence for any statement I've
made.

> If you had spent a few minutes perusing
> this group, you would have relised that some of the people who's
> opinion you have rubbished, are well respected, long standing
> contributors to this group.

Sorry, I didn't realise that there was an elitist ranking system on usenet,
at any rate. What opinion have I rubbished exactly? Wolfgangs "NIS doesn't
improve security" opinion, which I might add, he has presented more as fact
than opinion.

>> That's a pile of crap for a start. Take this case for example. I
>> know full well that providing firewall logs is of no use, because
>> I'm looking for a way of opening a port, (either via the GUI or a
>> cofig file.) I've checked the logs myself so I know that the FW is
>> blocking the port and it's not some other problem. If you honestly
>> think that there is a correlation between the logs and the procedure
>> for opening a port, then I suggest that you jack in IT support and
>> find another job where analytical thinking is not a requirement.
>
> And still from the very first moment of your unfortunate entry into
> this group, you refuse to give *any* real information about your
> problem. You still haven't told us which port you need to open

I *have* given you an example of *one* of the ports, this is happening on
more than one game.

> which
> game was giving the problem or anything that might remotely help
> anyone here to identify your problem.

I've identified the problem(and stated it), I have asked if anyone knows the
solution(i.e. how to unblock a port in NIS). Other people had no problem
understadning this.

> Instead, your sole intent seems
> to be to rub people up the wrong way and argue with every single
> point of view.

If you don't like being rubbed up the wrong way then I suggest that you are
more careful about the way you post. Take a look at this thread. You
replied to me in a civil enough manner (although slightly condescending),
but with what could be interpreted a few veiled attempts at flame bait.

You took personal offence with my description of my *experience* of
helpdesks. A point which I apologised to you about, which is something I
didn't need to do, after all, it was in no way a reference to you.

You didn't get an argument out of that part of the thread so you jumped in
another part and tried again by replying to one of wolfgang's posts with
nothing more than comments about myself.

> You are a troll.

See above.

> So, let me ask you this. Its 5 days since you posted your original
> "It's broken, fix it for me" message.

If by that you mean "here's my problem, anyone got an advice" then yes.

> What have you achieved? In my
> estimation, you have made yourself look a complete prat and annoyed
> and aggravated a number of people

That'd be two of you then. Both of whom seem incapable of being civil.

> who probably could and would have
> helped you if you had been a bit more civil and humble.

I doubt that.

> I hope you
> are happy.

Happier than you it would seem.

>> This is the equivalent of someone asking for help finding the record
>> button on a VCR and another person insisting that he needs to know
>> what channel the person wants to record before he can offer any
>> advice.
>
> Thats a load of bollocks...................;-)

No, that's a pretty apt analogy.

> Go away, you are boring me now. I can see why people got annoyed with
> you in other groups.

Likewise. I'm not replying to you again, or this tread for that matter.

Thanks again to the people who did reply with advice. 

-- 
Morgan.
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