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Re: [AVR-Chat] Dealing with Grad Student Spam (was Infra red)

2006-02-21 by James Washer

ARRRGGH..
I just got an instant message from a lazy co-worker.. he pinged me with "Hey Jim, do you have a second?"... to which I responded, "I had about 3600 of them an hour ago, but they're all gone now"

 - jim
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:37:36 -0600
Mike Perks <basicx@austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Couldn't agree more Jim. Such is the curse of email and the Internet.
> 
> These emails are easy to spot and are quite different to the ones from 
> people who have tried something and got stuck. As a group could we all 
> agree to either:
> a) Not respond to these emails - it only encourages them
> b) Respond with a standard answer such as "Use Google, do some 
> investigation and work before asking for more help"
> 
> It's funny how you never hear from these people again and they never 
> post their results.
> 
> Mike
> http://home.austin.rr.com/perks/micros/
> 
> > LOL....
> >
> > I'm just so amazed by the hundreds of posts saying "I'm a graduate 
> > student at blah-blah-U and I need to write a program that does 
> > something mundane. Can you send me code to do this?"
> >
> > How in the world these people made it to grad school is beyond me..
> >
> > - jim
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:03:34 +1100
> > "Ivan Vernot" <ivernot@optushome.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > >   ----- Original Message -----
> > >   From: Mansur Mansur
> > >   To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
> > >   Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:49 PM
> > >   Subject: [AVR-Chat] Infra red
> > >
> > >
> > >   Dear all,
> > >   I plan to build wireless communication using sony remote controll 
> > as a transmitter and sony receiver.any one has experience using this 
> > sonny remote.
> > >   Regards,
> > >   Mansur
> > >
> > > Yes.
> > >
> > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro 
> > <http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro>
> > >
> > >
> > > But because I am in a really bad mood!
> > >
> > > 
> > http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-27,GGLG:en&q=infrared+communication+sony+remote 
> > <http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-27,GGLG:en&q=infrared+communication+sony+remote>
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