Grumpy wrote:[color=blue]
> Desk Rabbit wrote:[color=green]
>> Grumpy wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> Desk Rabbit wrote:
>>>> Grumpy wrote:
>>>>> Desk Rabbit wrote:
>>>>>> [email]mymail@hotmail.co.uk[/email] wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:58:37 GMT, "Nick" <not.known@here.com.uk>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "Desk Rabbit" <nospam@example.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>> news:-sidnfLCPIpI7g3aRVnytAA@pipex.net...
>>>>>>>>> Homeworker wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> da wonder of ebay
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I bought a BT VOYAGER 2500V with built in
>>>>>>>>>> VOIP support and telephone socket
>>>>>>>>> Good for you.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> i presume this means no computer needs to be
>>>>>>>>>> on just the router at all times
>>>>>>>>> Correct
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> i presume if i use somepne like sipgate who support
>>>>>>>>>> multiple voip companies i can have multiple lines
>>>>>>>>>> phone numers incoming
>>>>>>>>> Maybe.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> i presume if i want to take full advantage multiple
>>>>>>>>>> outgoing i need to buy separately somehting like
>>>>>>>>>> a grandstream
>>>>>>>>> A Grandstream what?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> am i learning , trying hard here to get to grips
>>>>>>>>>> with this technology
>>>>>>>>> I know. Technology can be difficult. Generally one starts a
>>>>>>>>> sentence
>>>>>>>>> with a capital letter and i by itself is usually a capital I.
>>>>>>>>> You will
>>>>>>>>> find the shift keys on your keyboard will produce these
>>>>>>>>> characyers if
>>>>>>>>> you hold one down whilst pressing the character you wish to
>>>>>>>>> capitalise.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Full stops are customary at the end of sentences. On a UK
>>>>>>>>> keyboard the
>>>>>>>>> full stop key is just left of the ?
>>>>>>>> And once these skills are achieved, correct spelling is the next.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And spelling just does not matter providing one can tell what the
>>>>>>> writer is on about, if doctors can get away with the numerous
>>>>>>> spelling
>>>>>>> mistakes and abymal hand writing that they make I am sure someone
>>>>>>> posting to a poxy news group can .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Actually Nick was quite right and I totally disagree with you. I
>>>>>> should have taken more care. Just pure laziness on my part.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does someone have to meet a certain critereon in order to recieve
>>>>> help from you?
>>>>
>>>> Yes they have to spell critereon as criterion and recieve as
>>>> receive so you fail.
>>>>
>>>>> If so choose not to reply
>>>>
>>>> Reply deleted
>>>
>>> The idea of this forum is to inform or help people who who seek advice,[/color]
>> Err, this is a newsgroup. Ivor!!!! :-)
>>[color=darkred]
>>> It is not here to score points by those who feel superior.[/color]
>> Totally agree. But also if you are going to ask a question and ask for
>> free advice at no cost from volunteers who take time out of their day
>> to try and help for free and at no cost, at least have the gumption
>> and politeness to write the message in a legible form so you don't
>> make reading it a chore. That's all I'm saying.[/color]
>
> Your original reply to the op was patronizing and demeaning.[color=green]
>>[color=darkred]
>>> I chose to follow your example in my reply by making a spelling mistake.[/color]
>> Er, mistakes(s) I think you'll find.[/color]
>
> Are you suggesting that when you make a mistake its just a slip up, but
> when others do it it invalidates the point they are trying to make.[color=green]
>>[color=darkred]
>>> My previous suggestion stands "If so choose not to reply"[/color]
>> My two cents: Newbies need to learn and if we just ignore the top
>> posters, the poor spellers, the people who think it's OK to use SMS
>> TXT shorthand and the grammar destroyers, newsgroups will be the worse
>> for it.[/color]
>
> The aims of your "two cents" are not unreasonable. The manner in which
> you tried to achieve it are deplorable.
> The answer you gave him tried neither to help nor inform the op.
> If you require someone to take more care with thier spelling or a better
> explanation of thier problem, then you must take more care in the way
> you request it.
> If the op chooses to ignore your request or that of the first poster
> that makes such a request, all those of a similar mind as yourself
> "choose not to reply"
>[/color]

Bored now.

Bye Bye.