Posted by FatKat on 12/19/05 06:01

GELF wrote:
> "FatKat" <robynari@juno.com> wrote in message
> news:1134929252.377524.66160@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > Tester wrote:
> >> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 07:07:59 -0700, "Jim Sutherland"
> >> <sutherjim@comcast.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Please help! I'm running XP Pro and this error started a
> >> >couple of weeks
> >> >ago. Tried re-installing WinMX, no help there. Not to be
> >> >paranoid or
> >> >anything but I can't help but think Bill Gates is trying to
> >> >shut WinMX down.
> >> >Any other XP users with such a problem? And did you fix it?
> >> >How?
> >> >
> >> Yep he got me too
> >
> > It doesn't take Bill Gates to snare laziness. There are
> > several
> > possible explanations for what's going on here that don't
> > involve
> > conspiracies of Bill Gates (WTF!??!?!) and the
> > Musical/Industrial
> > Complex. You've simply tried to download a corrupted, probably
> > fake
> > file - an explanation you could have easily hit upon yourslef
> > w/o
> > posting simply by googling "winmx" and "shutdown" or "error".
> >
>
> Why bother googling when there's so many helpful souls in a
> friendly ng ready to give guidance and advise.

Because googling would find NG posts that already contain the answer.
There's no reason to expect that these helpful souls should have to
answer the same basic questions over and pver again.

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