Re: I need help as I am growing tired and weary

From: MisterKurtz (kurtz_at_CentralStation)
Date: 09/04/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 07:00:45 -0500

"N. Miller" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1ba30088e30c5ae198a3d8@msnews.microsoft.com...
> In article <5c7801c49201$7a702910$a601280a@phx.gbl>, C ya says...
>
> > Thank you for a reply that is at least trying to help.
>
> Well, I have to try. I am just stubborn that way; some of the old
> curmudgeons of the Internet that I have met would have been a hell of a
lot
> more blunt and rude than even MisterKurtz. I had one of them once tell me
> that I was "too stupid to be allowed on the Internet"!

< snipped other more useful & on topic stuff >

Rude? Maybe.
Blunt? Definitely.
Flip & from the hip? Probably.

(Reading between the lines I also think I see you saying that one needs to
be a little thick-skinned on Usenet.)

However, you also don't disagree with the possibility that the user is
(re)introducing a problem to their system(s). If a user were go online
without AV software after repeated infections, is that a machine/software
issue or a user issue? Doesn't there come a point in troubleshooting where
one asks themselves," What could I have done to cause this?" AKA, what was
changed/added/removed/configured just prior to the unwanted behavior?

Does helping someone through another episode of the same chronic computer
struggles cure the symptom or the disease?

The user is part of the system and needs to be considered as such.

Kurtz

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