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by SHANNON WILLIAMS
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I resent having to register for some program to open a document that I need to access NOW. I did register, and still CANNOT open the document....what the hell are you? What right do you have to force me to use your program?
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by Matthew McGowen
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What exactly is your problem? What type of file are you trying to open?
Also, sorry to be preachy, you had to register but you didn't have to pay, so don't look a gift horse in the mouth. -Matt On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:27 PM, SHANNON WILLIAMS wrote: > I resent having to register for some program to open a document that > I need to access NOW. I did register, and still CANNOT open the > document....what the hell are you? What right do you have to force > me to use your program? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... |
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by mike scott-2
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sj_clement@... wrote:
> What type of document are you trying to open? I do believe the OP isn't subscribed to the list, so won't have seen either reply. I'm puzzled by the original query anyway - you /don't/ have to register to use OOo, and it's hardly "us" "forcing" him to use the program. (also not cc'd to OP; his manners have rather put me off helping him, assuming it's not just a poor troll anyway.) -- Mike Scott Harlow Essex England.(mike -a-t- [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) (Processing of this email by 3rd parties in relation to advertising services is forbidden.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... |
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RE: this
by databpro
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Hi,
As an OOo user and register user, it sadden me to read such language from someone when the program is free and it is such an excellent program. Ron Norsworthy -----Original Message----- From: sj_clement@... [mailto:sj_clement@...] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:13 PM To: discuss@... Subject: Re: [discuss] this Too bad. How's he get posted here? Why doesn't he use the help screens? They nailed me out a lot. ------Original Message------ From: Mike Scott To: discuss@... ReplyTo: discuss@... Subject: Re: [discuss] this Sent: Oct 14, 2009 16:11 sj_clement@... wrote: > What type of document are you trying to open? I do believe the OP isn't subscribed to the list, so won't have seen either reply. I'm puzzled by the original query anyway - you /don't/ have to register to use OOo, and it's hardly "us" "forcing" him to use the program. (also not cc'd to OP; his manners have rather put me off helping him, assuming it's not just a poor troll anyway.) -- Mike Scott Harlow Essex England.(mike -a-t- [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) (Processing of this email by 3rd parties in relation to advertising services is forbidden.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... |
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by Peter Junge-2
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Hi,
@Matt: To my experience messages like this come up, when a person has been 'buying' OOo from a dubious source. @SHANNON WILLIAMS: How did you get your copy of OpenOffice? It's free software and *nobody* is forced to use it. Best regards, Peter Matthew McGowen wrote: > What exactly is your problem? What type of file are you trying to open? > Also, sorry to be preachy, you had to register but you didn't have to > pay, so don't look a gift horse in the mouth. > -Matt > On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:27 PM, SHANNON WILLIAMS wrote: > >> I resent having to register for some program to open a document that I >> need to access NOW. I did register, and still CANNOT open the >> document....what the hell are you? What right do you have to force me >> to use your program? >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... |
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by Michael Adams-2
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On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:27:48 -0700 (PDT)
Came this utterance formulated by SHANNON WILLIAMS to my mailbox: > I resent having to register for some program... OpenOffice.org is a program that you do not "have" to register for. There is an option during the first run of the program that says "I do not want to register". Selecting this option will not stop the program from running. > ...to open a document that I need to access NOW. Evident frustration is showing through here. 1. What type of document are you trying to open? 2. What methods have you tried? 3. Can you run OpenOffice.org OK? > I did register, and still CANNOT open the document... More frustration; again, registration does not affect your ability to open documents. > what the hell are you? You have contacted a list of thousands of OpenOffice.org users. Many of them give up their free time to help other users to operate the program better and solve problems with it. > What right do you have to force me to use your program? We are Borg and we will assimilate you. No seriously, who is holding your arm up your back? Do you know how to operate a computer or are you a recent convert to computers that has been misled into believing they are easy to use, and are trying to use it with no training? Your post does not descend into outright abuse but the tone will make many, that can help you, ignore you. Worse, you may get flamed. Thousands of happy users abusing you through your email mailbox is not what you want. And the evidence is forever burned onto the internet on several different public servers now that you started it. Take a few deep breaths, and reply answering the questions i pose above and we may actually help you with your problem. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... |
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by Paul Douglas Franklin of Yakima UGM
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I would add, we will help you if 1) we can and 2) you indeed ask politely.
Michael Adams wrote: > Take a few deep breaths, and reply answering the questions i pose above > and we may actually help you with your problem. > > -- Paul Douglas Franklin Union Gospel Mission of Yakima, Washington Computer Manager /Husband of Danette Father of Laurene, Miriam, Tycko, Timothy, Sarabeth, Marie, Dawnita, Anna Leah, Alexander, and Caleb /Upgrade to the premier Office package today! OpenOffice Free download here: http://www.openoffice.org/ / / --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... |
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by Tony Pursell
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'SHANNON WILLIAMS' is not subscribed to the list, so unless you include 'her' personal email adddress, 'she' will not see any comments. My worry is that it may be a spam attempt to harvest email addresses, or something even worse. I have tried to create an anonymous persona to reply to 'her' but when I tested my attempts to do this, they all got caught by Google Mail's spam filters, so the chances are that 'she' would not see them either. Tony On 15 Oct 2009 at 20:41, Michael Adams wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:27:48 -0700 (PDT) > Came this utterance formulated by SHANNON WILLIAMS to my mailbox: > > > I resent having to register for some program... > > OpenOffice.org is a program that you do not "have" to register for. > There is an option during the first run of the program that says "I do > not want to register". Selecting this option will not stop the program > from running. > > > ...to open a document that I need to access NOW. > > Evident frustration is showing through here. > > 1. What type of document are you trying to open? > 2. What methods have you tried? > 3. Can you run OpenOffice.org OK? > > > I did register, and still CANNOT open the document... > > More frustration; again, registration does not affect your ability to > open documents. > > > what the hell are you? > > You have contacted a list of thousands of OpenOffice.org users. Many of > them give up their free time to help other users to operate the program > better and solve problems with it. > > > What right do you have to force me to use your program? > > We are Borg and we will assimilate you. No seriously, who is holding > your arm up your back? Do you know how to operate a computer or are you > a recent convert to computers that has been misled into believing they > are easy to use, and are trying to use it with no training? > > Your post does not descend into outright abuse but the tone will make > many, that can help you, ignore you. Worse, you may get flamed. > Thousands of happy users abusing you through your email mailbox is not > what you want. And the evidence is forever burned onto the internet on > several different public servers now that you started it. > > Take a few deep breaths, and reply answering the questions i pose above > and we may actually help you with your problem. > > -- > Michael > > All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall > be well > > - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... |
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by Peter Junge-2
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In this case I would think we can stop discussing $SUBJECT. ;-)
Tony Pursell wrote: > Hi all > > 'SHANNON WILLIAMS' is not subscribed to the list, so unless you > include 'her' personal email adddress, 'she' will not see any comments. > > My worry is that it may be a spam attempt to harvest email addresses, > or something even worse. > > I have tried to create an anonymous persona to reply to 'her' but when > I tested my attempts to do this, they all got caught by Google Mail's > spam filters, so the chances are that 'she' would not see them either. > > Tony > > > On 15 Oct 2009 at 20:41, Michael Adams wrote: > >> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:27:48 -0700 (PDT) >> Came this utterance formulated by SHANNON WILLIAMS to my mailbox: >> >>> I resent having to register for some program... >> OpenOffice.org is a program that you do not "have" to register for. >> There is an option during the first run of the program that says "I do >> not want to register". Selecting this option will not stop the program >> from running. >> >>> ...to open a document that I need to access NOW. >> Evident frustration is showing through here. >> >> 1. What type of document are you trying to open? >> 2. What methods have you tried? >> 3. Can you run OpenOffice.org OK? >> >>> I did register, and still CANNOT open the document... >> More frustration; again, registration does not affect your ability to >> open documents. >> >>> what the hell are you? >> You have contacted a list of thousands of OpenOffice.org users. Many of >> them give up their free time to help other users to operate the program >> better and solve problems with it. >> >>> What right do you have to force me to use your program? >> We are Borg and we will assimilate you. No seriously, who is holding >> your arm up your back? Do you know how to operate a computer or are you >> a recent convert to computers that has been misled into believing they >> are easy to use, and are trying to use it with no training? >> >> Your post does not descend into outright abuse but the tone will make >> many, that can help you, ignore you. Worse, you may get flamed. >> Thousands of happy users abusing you through your email mailbox is not >> what you want. And the evidence is forever burned onto the internet on >> several different public servers now that you started it. >> >> Take a few deep breaths, and reply answering the questions i pose above >> and we may actually help you with your problem. >> >> -- >> Michael >> >> All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall >> be well >> >> - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... >> For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... >> >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... |
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by Michael Adams-2
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On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:17:31 +0100
Came this utterance formulated by Tony Pursell to my mailbox: > Hi all > > 'SHANNON WILLIAMS' is not subscribed to the list, so unless you > include 'her' personal email adddress, 'she' will not see any > comments. > As i did. This is common on this list. > My worry is that it may be a spam attempt to harvest email addresses, > or something even worse. > Many frustrated people post to this list. Their frustration coming across as anger directed at the program, at the developers of the program or at the email address they may think is going to a help desk. > I have tried to create an anonymous persona to reply to 'her' but when > I tested my attempts to do this, they all got caught by Google Mail's > spam filters, so the chances are that 'she' would not see them either. > Not necessary, email addresses used on this list can be harvested direct from the server. Yours is here: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=65024 This list is often mistakenly stumbled upon by those seeking help, or wanting to vent frustration, and it is not unusual to receive emails of this type here. Unless you have a specific reason to suspect email harvesting as a motive, I respectfully suggest you disregard that as the motive for the original email. If you are worried about harvesting, then register two email addresses. Post on one and only ever read using the other. Most email clients allow you to set the outgoing address on a per folder basis. This allows you to drop all emails coming in to the posting address. Many ISP's will let you do this at the server. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... |
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by sj_clement
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Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -----Original Message----- From: sj_clement@... Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:23:30 To: <discuss@...> Subject: Re: [discuss] this ------Original Message------ From: Michael Adams To: discuss@... ReplyTo: discuss@... ReplyTo: discuss@... Subject: Re: [discuss] this Sent: Oct 16, 2009 03:23 On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:17:31 +0100 Came this utterance formulated by Tony Pursell to my mailbox: > Hi all > > 'SHANNON WILLIAMS' is not subscribed to the list, so unless you > include 'her' personal email adddress, 'she' will not see any > comments. > As i did. This is common on this list. > My worry is that it may be a spam attempt to harvest email addresses, > or something even worse. > Many frustrated people post to this list. Their frustration coming across as anger directed at the program, at the developers of the program or at the email address they may think is going to a help desk. > I have tried to create an anonymous persona to reply to 'her' but when > I tested my attempts to do this, they all got caught by Google Mail's > spam filters, so the chances are that 'she' would not see them either. > Not necessary, email addresses used on this list can be harvested direct from the server. Yours is here: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=65024 This list is often mistakenly stumbled upon by those seeking help, or wanting to vent frustration, and it is not unusual to receive emails of this type here. Unless you have a specific reason to suspect email harvesting as a motive, I respectfully suggest you disregard that as the motive for the original email. If you are worried about harvesting, then register two email addresses. Post on one and only ever read using the other. Most email clients allow you to set the outgoing address on a per folder basis. This allows you to drop all emails coming in to the posting address. Many ISP's will let you do this at the server. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network |
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Re: [OT] not this but that
by Michael Adams-2
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:24:12 +0000
Came this utterance formulated by sj_clement@... to my mailbox: > > Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network > Why? It didn't seem to add anything of value to the thread??? Me puzzled! -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... |
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Re: [OT] not this but that
by Gene Young
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Michael Adams wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:24:12 +0000 > Came this utterance formulated by sj_clement@... to my mailbox: > >> Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network >> > > Why? It didn't seem to add anything of value to the thread??? > > Me puzzled! > > as my daughter's does this as well. I thinks its a bloated ego thing. The device, not the user. <g> -- Gene Y. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... |
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by Robert Derman-2
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sj_clement@... wrote:
> ------Original Message------ > From: Michael Adams > To: discuss@... > ReplyTo: discuss@... > ReplyTo: discuss@... > Subject: Re: [discuss] this > Sent: Oct 16, 2009 03:23 > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:17:31 +0100 > Came this utterance formulated by Tony Pursell to my mailbox: > > >> Hi all >> >> 'SHANNON WILLIAMS' is not subscribed to the list, so unless you >> include 'her' personal email adddress, 'she' will not see any >> comments. >> they will not see replies to their email, then why is it that their email is even visible to those reading this list? And furthermore, what is the point? It just seems to me that if they are not subscribed, then their email simply should not make it through to this list in the first place. Am I just dumb that I don't get this? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... |
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Re: why be subscribed (was this)
by Michael Adams-2
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:22:48 -0500
Came this utterance formulated by Robert Derman to my mailbox: > I have a question, if someone is not subscribed to this list so that > they will not see replies to their email, then why is it that their > email is even visible to those reading this list? And furthermore, > what is the point? It just seems to me that if they are not > subscribed, then their email simply should not make it through to this > list in the first place. Am I just dumb that I don't get this? > Both this list and the user list have been intentionally made as easy to contact with questions as possible. This is to ease the way for newbies. Regular contributors on the list know to reply to both the list and the OP when a non-subscribed email hits the list (in my mail client i have filtered unsubscribed posts to a seperate sub-folder). In that way we become a help-desk without flooding the OPs email address with all the other emails unrelated to their question. It works, it just takes some getting your head around. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... |
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Re: [OT] not this but that
by Michael Adams-2
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:38:41 -0400
Came this utterance formulated by Gene Young to my mailbox: > Michael Adams wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:24:12 +0000 > > Came this utterance formulated by sj_clement@... to my mailbox: > > > >> Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network > >> > > > > Why? It didn't seem to add anything of value to the thread??? > > > > Me puzzled! > > > > > I think that is a sig line that the Blackberry software adds on its > own as my daughter's does this as well. I thinks its a bloated ego > thing. The device, not the user. <g> > I didn't get any text in the email other than this, though. I got this line above and below the text being replied to but nothing from sj_clement himself. Unless it was HTML and i couldn't read it? I can't see anything additional in the message source either. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... |
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Re: [OT] not this but that
by Gene Young
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Michael Adams wrote:
> > I didn't get any text in the email other than this, though. I got this > line above and below the text being replied to but nothing from > sj_clement himself. Unless it was HTML and i couldn't read it? I can't > see anything additional in the message source either. > The original had a number of lines: The majority of which I have snipped. ==================== begin quote ================================= -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network ====================== end quote ================================= The relevant items were in the Sig area. I did a cut and paste and lost the formating but you get the idea. I don't have a clue why nothing else showed for you. Very curious. Gene Y. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help@... |
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