[aprssig] TNCx TCP/IP over radio

[steve at dimse.com]

What you call cruel bullying I call sarcasm. The fact is your posts are usually off-topic, and your questions almost always self-answerable. I've tried in many other ways to point this out to you. I have literally hundreds of answers I've written to your questions in my email archives, starting in 2003 when you were learning Perl and linux.

Early on I went way out of my way to help you, writing code snippets for you and pointing you in the right directions when I could. When you ignored the terms of service for findU and wrote a screen-scraper I was forgiving and gave you some good hints how to proceed without disrupting my server. I was still nice five years later when you did it a second time (granted it was probably because I forgot you had offended before, I'm not usually nice to repeat offenders).

But all that being nice got me nothing but more questions that had nothing to do with APRS and that could easily be answered with a Google search. So I stopped answering you, but you continued to ask them on the SIG. After a while I tired of these questions and, first by private email and then on the SIG, suggested you learn to find things out for yourself rather than bother the whole SIG with your off-topic questions. 

I tried more than enough, over 13 years and with gradually escalating rhetoric, to get you to behave like the other members of the SIG. The only way to actually get your attention seems to be this; so be it. Each flurry of off-topic posts and self-indulgent "I want to try this next" posts will be met with my sarcasm. The last time you stopped for two months. I had hoped for more, but I guess I'm not surprised it didn't last longer.

If thinking it is bullying makes you feel better because you like to feel like a victim, feel free to wallow in your self-pity. But you are NOT an innocent victim of bullying. 

Steve K4HG

> On Sep 15, 2016, at 6:33 AM, Andrew Rich <vk4tec at tech-software.net> wrote:
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>> On 15 Sep 2016, at 8:29 PM, Andrew Rich <vk4tec at tech-software.net> wrote:
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>> Back off
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>> Andrew Rich
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>>> On 15 Sep 2016, at 7:43 PM, Steve Dimse <steve at dimse.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Sep 14, 2016, at 11:29 PM, Andrew Rich <vk4tec at tech-software.net> wrote:
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>>> Thank goodness you are back! I was starting to worry about the future of APRS and ham radio in general if you weren't here!
>>> 
>>>> Could the TNCx be used for TCP/IP over radio ?
>>>> 
>>> Sure. It's kind of technical, but we can't wait to hear all your insightful questions on the off-topic. We've all been spending way too much time with fiber-to-the-home and 4G LTE, time for 1200 baud TCP/IP to make a comeback!
>>> 
>>> Steve K4HG
>>> 
>>> Andrew stop reading here------------
>>> 
>>> Everyone else:
>>> 
>>> All hands on deck! I know most of you have never done AX-25 TCP/IP, and probably the rest on the APRS SIG are like me and haven't even thought about it this millennium, but hey, it's for Andrew!
>>> 
>>> I can hear the doubters. Yes, it is hard to predict which way Andrew's unique and wonderful mind will head, and he is asking about APRS over DStar and APRSX today too, but since those are on-topic and cutting edge I'm sure this will be what holds his interest for the next few days.
>>> 
>>> This is my last day in Acadia National Park, and I had gotten up early to beat the crowds on a great loop hike up and over Dorr Mountain, but instead I'm going to stay in my RV and reread N8UR's book on ham TCP/IP from the late 90's. 
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>>> ftp://ftp.tapr.org/projects/n8urbook/n8ur-dr1.pdf
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>>> I hope others will join me in putting nose-to-the-grindstone and face-into-the-wind, and prep themselves to help. For Andrew.
>>> 
>>> Andrew on three - 1 - 2 - 3 - ANDREW!
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>>> Steve K4HG
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