On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 12:53, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 05:54, Radule Soskic wrote:
Is there a legitimate reason why you wouldn't help a suse user who lives in a country like Romania, just because of that fact? Do you think it's all right to discriminate people based on their country of origin? Or, just based on the country's _history_, if that's any better? Or, last but not least, based just on the domain name suffix, for the matter of fact.
You know that the .ro extension in the domain name does not mean that the user is Romanian, don't you? How about the domain like "homeip.net", for example? What country is that, and what kind of history has it exhibited?
I don't know about privacy laws in Romania, but am an expert in history (I read magazines and watch TV). I remember all the horror stories about Romanian terror against native Indian tribes and about enslaving African Negro people in the past and keeping them in ghettos in present. Also, this terrible Romanian intervention in the Middle East that happened recently with such an untrue excuse.
Sure, all this is not a kind of history to be proud of, but I don't think the particular guy really has anything to do with it. He just asked something about VNC as far as I understand. And this *is* a kind of list for asking such kind of questions.
I think you should apologise to this Romanian guy, really. And, people, please - stop things like these on this list - forever.
Sorry for the irony, but I couldn't resist. I'll shut up now.
Best regards,
cikasole
This was not aimed at this particular user but all users. This list, I believe, does not believe in helping potential wrong doing, such as helping break into computers or spying on other people.
We are here to help -anyone- with legitimate problems and do a reasonably good job at it. Helping someone to spy on someone else or helping someone to break into another computer does not fall into that area.
Had the person provided a reason for doing so he may have received a more helpful response.
-- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)
OK, my point was not on legitimacy of this guy's question. It was more on the fact that the guy's country, the country's history and the country' privacy laws were used in argument, even though they are _not_ of any relevance for the issue. I might be too sensitive, but taking the origin of a list user just to support the explanation for not helping him seemed like worth of reply. Sorry for bandwidth waste. Best regards, cikasole