Deborah Jean,
I've only been here a few months but by and large I have found people to be
polite and friendly - and also incredibly knowledgeable, with or without
qualifications or badges of honour. I defy anyone to hang around here for
long without learning something.
In my experience, general 'netiquette' disfavours taking problems offline,
and certainly not until reasonable steps have been taken to address the
issues online, as it makes the archive a far less valuable resource.
Questions about licensing or, more particularly, ways round licensing are
always difficult because, even if the poster is genuine, those who come
along later may not be, and are generally answered, if at all, only in the
broadest of terms.
I do not know anything about OEM licences and, so, cannot comment on the
actual answers to this question but your first brief post looked suspicious
to me and, obviously, to others. I don't know you; until last week I hadn't
noticed any posts by you and suddenly I see you offering to help with a
licensing issue, offline, via what looks like a throwaway e-mail address.
What would you think if you saw someone else post in a similar fashion?
You could have avoided the comments if you had added a little more detail to
your first post, but what really amazes me is your rude over-reaction to
them. You would get ostracized from many societies for that kind of
behaviour and no amount of qualifications or legal knowledge would help in
mitigation, and the only person likely to benefit at all would seem to be
your lawyer. I don't know Beth Melton any more than I know you, although I
have seen her good responses to many many posts, but I would say you owe her
more of an apology than you owe the rest of the community. Your comments
here discredit both you and the newsgroup.
--
Enjoy,
Tony
Deborah Jean said:
I didn't swear and she accused me of doing something illegal which I took
great offense to. I don't do things illegally and it's not my fault that I
have been working with computers since 1987 and know more people and ways to
fix things than she does. Perhaps I was a little hotheaded and to the REST
of the community I apologize. But not to Beth Melton. She should think
before she responds as the new law enacted 1/1/06 states if someone posts a
falsehood about someone else wheather it be in a blog, forum, or website it's
a sueable offense. She had no right to speak of me like that when she had no
idea what the fix to his problem was and what I personally was going to do to
help the man. Certifications do mean something in MS's world, it means that
the carrier has the knowledge, determination and the creditionals to back up
what they are saying. It also means that I cannot perform any illegal actions
or I lose my certifications that I worked so hard to obtain. I'm sorry if I
offended the rest of the community...but had Beth Melton not hinted that I
was going to do something illegal to help someone I wouldn't have gotten so
mad at HER not anyone else just HER. If I could have written her directley,
my lawyer would have done so. Again I apoligize to you and the rest of the
forum.
Deborah Jean
MOS Master Instructor
Network Admin.
Milly Staples said:
Hey - calm down and you might want to clean up the language a bit too while
you are at it.
By the way, certifications only mean that you can pass the test.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.
After furious head scratching, Deborah Jean asked:
| IDIOT, I was going to give him the address AT MICROSOFT where you can
| rebuy a key for 1/2 price since it came with the bundled software.
| So back the hell off of me. You guys obviously don't know the email
| address and James Johnson of MS doesn't want it given out it a FORUM.
| So back the hell off. I wasn't doing any thing illegal except
| protecting James's email address. I'm a BETA TESTER I know the
| rules. But HE is the one to approach for these issues. You could go
| the looooooonnnng way as YOU suggested but since James is a friend of
| mine this way would be faster. SO BITE ME. I'M NOT DOING ANYTHING
| ILLEGAL THAT WOULD JEPORDIZE MY CERTIFICATIONS. DO YOU EVEN HAVE
| ANY????????? So send MR. P Iracy a copy and he'll inform you that I
| AM RIGHT. I'm a Network Admin and I KNOW the laws....and I know the
| people that get the job done faster OBVIOUSLY YOU DON'T.......
| I've seen some of your answers and wonder where the hell you get your
| information. Just because you bought it bundled doesn't mean MS
| doesn't have a backup plan for when you lose it. God, Don't write me
| again until you can prove certification.
|
| Deborah Jean
|
| "Beth Melton" wrote:
|
|| And I'm sure Mr. P. Iracy at Microsoft would love a copy of your
|| reply in this newsgroup!
||
|| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|| Beth Melton
||
||
|| message ||| Write me at my yahoo email address and I'll help you with this.
|||
||| (e-mail address removed)
|||
||| "jirka" wrote:
|||
|||| My system has recently crashed and after reinstal I realized that I
|||| lost the
|||| CD key for my Office 2003. Is there any way I can, upon proving
|||| that I do
|||| have a genuine OEM MS product, get a new key?
|||| Thanks for any help
|||| Jirka