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Re: Berating the GPM WWW Site

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From: David Priest
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 00:23
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Juergen Sahlberg <sahlberg@fe.uni-bremen.de> writes:
>Hello David,
>Did you ever hear about "Nettiquette"? Reading your posting, I doubt.
>If you show this attidude in face-to-face conversation, someone might
>respond by giving you a bang on the ear... (Sorry couldn't resist)

Yah, well, after spending some 45+ minutes farqing around on their 
poorly-designed website and coming up empty, I feel like giving someone 
over there a bang on the ear.

>As you don't seem to be a GPM customer that pays for license and support
>(judging from "Linux" in your posting), you should be happy to have such
>a good compiler for free. Support for this compiler is quite good even for

Hell, I _don't_ have their compiler for free; in 45 minutes of poking 
around, I was barely able to find out whether it was even plausible to 
use their compiler.  Downloading the thing scares heck out of me; it'd 
take eons.

The flame stands.  Their site is hell on anyone outside of Australia.

They need to redesign their doumentation, so that one doesn't spend an 
eternity accessing it paragraph by paragraph.

They need to get a mirror site off their continent, so that the documents 
can be read in a timely fashion.
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Subject: Re: Berating the GPM WWW Site
Date: 17 Apr 1996 00:23:16 GMT
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