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On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:33:27 GMT, CJT wrote:



CJT - thanks for the positive and constructive comments.
I really don't get some of the guys on alt.hvac. Not only do they have
nothing productive to add, but they immediately go into "asshole" mode.

What you don't 'get' is that we are not here to provide free
help for home-moaners. Get over it.


- If they don't want to help, why do they waste their time responding?

Why do you think we owe you any explanation ? Where do you
get off assuming that YOU set 'the standards and the reasons' for US
to post ? Who the **** are you ?

- Are their egos so low and are they so threatened by an occasional
DIY that they have to go into "attack" mode?
- Do they truly believe that their attitude will win them loyal
customers?

Do you truly think you are 'a potential customer' for anyone
here ? Do you truly think that the home-moaners looking for free
advice are 'potential customers' ? DO you really view the asshole DIY
HM from Ohio as a 'potential customer' for the master tech in
California who only does commercial work ?

Then by your logic, helping the DIY homeowner from another locale is
also no loss to you since you would never have had him as a customer
anyway. You can't have it both ways -- either the person is a
potential customer in which case you should be polite and engaging at
least for your own selfish business reasons, or the person is not a
potential customer in which case what do you care whether you or
someone else gives him free advice that avoids a service call.

Either way why do you waste your time here if you are unwilling to help?
Why don't you get with the rest of the USENET culture which is about
people helping others?

And if you want a newsgroup restricted to so-called "pros", then why
don't you set up your own moderated newsgroup so that you can all
bitch among yourselves.

Finally, if you are as disgruntled as we all suspect and have no interest
in helping DIY homeowners, then why not at least be a mature adult and
ignore it?

In any case the obnoxious responses by some of the so-called
professionals has only doubled my resolve to fix this problem myself. Why
would I want to give business to a bunch of rude and selfish babies
even if they could do it cheaper and better?

But in some ways this is fun, I have never wanted to be a troll
before, but alt.hvac does sound like a good place to go if you want to
get a whole bunch of people aggravated with just a simple post. Maybe
we should all recommend to each of our friends to drop questions to
alt.hvac on a regular basis and then be amused by the responses