Re: TCP/IP: Ethernet option missing

[tturner@ecn.ab.ca ()]

Roy and/or Janet Miller (millers@inetnebr.com) wrote:
: Carlos Featherston wrote:

: > Machine: Power Mac G3
: > OS: 9
: >
: > I am totally new to Macs and their OS.

: That would explain then, why you are not using the correct newsgroup. This
: newsgroup Carl, is for the Apple II, the computer that made Apple a company, and
: that paid for the development and underwrote the first three years of life for
: the Macintosh. You need to find a newsgroup with the word "mac" in it for the
: help you are looking for.
<snip>

--> You're far more diplomatic than I ever was about this kind of
    Mac posting.  I sometimes was ready to crawl down my connection
    and throttle another Mac-only-whaddya-mean-there-was-another-apple?
    post.  Then I realized that any Mac user looking for answers
    (and, obviously, didn't know about the venerable A2 line) would
    likely do a search using the text-string "apple" and without a
    bit of lurking or searching for a FAQ; would just merrily post
    their question(s).  I see a similar thing in the "The Prisoner"
    newsgroup (an old - but brilliant - 60's TV series); well-meaning
    people blindly post to any newsgroup that contains the text-string
    "prisoner" to moan about some disadvantaged/innocent person (not
    that their hand-wringing is/isn't about a true injustice); so
    besides the spam that shows up; there's this mis-posted stuff, too.

    There's little or no way to stop this from happening (dammit); so
    I just bitch to my wife about usenet idiots (and, of course, feel
    superior to them; even if I fit the profile sometimes as well! :-> )

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