Topic: What has happened to this forum

[gbaird]

I have been using e-smith for several years and have followed
the forum but I have yet to recall any abuse of members such as I have lately. I have read all of the posts on this thread and the base question was very simple it appears the person has no network knowledge from reviewing his other posts in the experienced forum also

I feel this forum is for sme questions not simple tech support
that should be up to the person's isp Anyone that feels that I am in error should read the posts from sme6 before responding

The sme forum has a few different branches general - experienced etc if this type of behavior is getting to be acceceptable way don't we just start a chat room I feel this forum is a great value to members and if we are going to answer these very basic questions that don't have anything to do with sme maybe contribs,org can start another forum for them.

I have found that general questions can be answered using simple searches on google or yahoo and feel that the sme forums should be kept to sme issues If we stray from the sme system issues it will surely die with the interest not being
kept on bug issues and system enhancments

Gregory Baird

[RavenIV]

full agreement.

this is a SME-forum.
not a network-forum, not a technical-forum, not a linux-forum, not a i-don't-know-what-i-do-but-please-help-me forum.

cheers klaus

[wyron]

full agreement.
this is a SME-forum.
not a network-forum, not a technical-forum, not a linux-forum, not a i-don't-know-what-i-do-but-please-help-me forum.
cheers klaus

Oh, I see - and so, by deduction, a question like: What is wrong since my XP workstation cannot connect to MS for activation through my SME-server ? is completely irrelevant. Well whadaya know.

This posting ends my interest in your flaming campaign against (or war on) newbies, gbaird.
It must be really hot in Northern California these days.

[Cruzer]

not a linux-forum,

K SME runs in Windows then right?

not a i-don't-know-what-i-do-but-please-help-me forum.

and.. what are forums for then? Posting rants or asking for help?

[mbachmann]

Policy:
Enable newbies to help themselves by pointing them in the right direction.

Question:
Who is to judge if questions are suitable for this forum and wich are not?

Understatement:
There are annoying posts - leave them alone if you dislike them and focus your efforts on things you like.

Perception:
The more people start to fiddle around with something like SME the lower the "overall techie niveau".

Point made. Thanks for reading.

[wyron]

Perception:
The more people start to fiddle around with something like SME the lower the "overall techie niveau".

Hi, mb
You know, this is exactly what I've been trying to tell gbaird through the fora, but he keeps babbling about a great os that will certainly fail with the help of people like you and I.
Well, we'll se about that, won't we?

[mbachmann]

wyron, i hope we can put enough effort in SME to convince long time users to get along with us. We both do understand gbaird's complaints quite well, i guess.

People with delicate knowledge about something like SME easily are getting bored by lowerance of "overall techie niveau".