Hello Ed & the other one who states he has seen to many flame wars and then
starts one himself LOLOLOL
Ed, the guy you replied to likes to post little cutting remarks....he has
previously stated he does not like flame wars but actively tries to start
them. You are helping him in that endeavour by answering him.....
So you think that correcting errors is Pretty counterproductive. You must
lead a very hazardous life style.....do you have any anti virus software on
your machine? or do you allow your machine and the programs it holds to be
imposed upon by someone/thing? No doubt you do not see the connection....
Papajohn is simply put (no pun intended) a FRAUD. To give you some idea....
papajohns website becomes unavailable to a large section of the world. I
find the problem and send him privately the info in the form of a tracert,
I made the mistake of thinking that as he had an MVP status he would have a
good idea of matters "internet" An Internet Router/Hub blocks him while
trying to do a tracert....He fails because of the settings and therefore I
clearly do not know what I am talking about ?!?! By the way, before I
retired I designed and implemented a large Intranet running software I
wrote which connected Police Stations together and enabled detailed
enquiries to be made...I ended up as an advisor to members of the UK
Government and to almost every Police Force in the UK....papajohn knew that
but still tried to make it look as though I did not know what I was talking
about...it was then that another MVP contacted me privately...we had a
little laugh
It was at that time that I received my first e-mail from Mr Brown...he was
basically asking me if I wanted to be an MVP...my reply was that if
papajohns was material for MVP status then I did not think much of the
standard and NO I do not want to be one
I once picked up on a point he made which did not seem right and politely
asked about it...."I POST TO 52 NEWSGROUPS....! this was some sort of an
attempt to prove that he therefore MUST be right. He then sent me an e-mail
stating that we could not BOTH run the newsgroup....I always thought
Microsoft did...it seems he has other ideas and clearly felt that I was not
trying to help him and that I was trying to usurp him. I run software that
fairly quickly scans every newsgroup and from multiple servers
simultaneously...I can tell you that he did not then or now post to 52
newsgroups or any number close to that on any issue using his name
papajohn.
papajohn once left a message in here saying he was unable to reply to my
e-mail (from the time I used to privately try and help him) because it was
Digitally Signed...he made some remark that Outlook Express (the program we
both use) would not let him reply LOLOLOLOLOLOL and he made that remark in
here...So having finally given up trying to help this sap out I publicly
told him how to use Outlook....that wound him up even further...the one
button he had to press in Outlook is always visible...he tried to dismiss
it as an irrelevance. He clearly did not know how to use one of the most
basic tools in Windows.
papajohn ALWAYS posted messages that had an attachment, but by that time he
had already made himself look a fool with regard to Outlook and would not
correct his continued error. Every time he posted a message I pointed out
to everyone that it could carry a potential virus....the idiots that used
to support him tried to convince every one that MIME was a message display
protocol and that papajohns message contained no html code.....Because of
that they also joined the papajohn brigade of idiots...MIME you see is a
method of transporting 8 bit data over a 7bit network...using MIME you can
transfer very complex data...a Zip file or a virus emended in an HTML based
message. Only when I would not back down did a Microsoft person come clean
and told him what to do...again...this person is someone who claims to be a
Professional...what do you think about that so far???? but read on...
papajohn makes rash statements that expose his CV on the Microsoft site as
being a total load of rubbish...either he is suffering from a severe loss
of memory or the info he gave Microsoft is a straight and simple LIE
He makes grandiose statements about how Movie Maker is a NETWORK AWARE
application...I tell you I nearly fell of my seat when I heard his
justification for that remark. I told him quite bluntly that he was wrong
and that there is no function within Movie Maker that has any relationship
with Network Awareness. At that time Microsoft in the form of a Mr Andrew
Brown actively supported him...well of course they would...to do any other
would cast a shadow over all MVP's which would not be fair. Brown brought
forward a statement from an "unnamed technician" that Movie Maker was
"Aware" So we all had a good laugh at Mr Brown who clearly did not know how
stupid he now looked as well as papajohn.
Recently, I have been making comment to people that the program PERFECT
DISK by Raxco is very good and that it not only defragment's the free space
on your hard drive (something the built in defragmenter can not do) it will
also defragment the previously unreachable system files including
pagefile.sys.. Guess what the idiot papajohn did!!! He stated that he had
tried the program Perfect Disk and afterwards made a video and on checking
that video he discovered that it had many THOUSANDS of fragments. Clearly
he had not bothered to set the appropriate options on the ONLY program in
the world that has the TOP MICROSOFT CERTIFICATION for this type of
program...So I say again...the guy is a PRATT
I could go on and on and on with these examples I could mention what a fool
he made himself look when he described how turning down the priority for an
application would help the CPU cool down LOLOL I could mention his bully
boys and the stupid remarks they came out with from behind an alias name. I
could mention the slight when he included on his website an explanation I
gave on how to do certain tasks with regard to a hard drive....he
paraphrased it in here AND GOT IT WRONG...I could also mention how one poor
user took advice from Papajohns website and found himself in a
mess....papajohn's comment was it was at the users own risk as he had no
personal knowledge on the matter at hand...HE SHOWED NO RESPONCIBILITY OF
ANY KIND...He is happy to copy and paste anything that looks good to pad
out his commercial website...pity the poor person who takes any advice from
it....if its wrong papajohn will just dump you the way he has dumped
others.
So, what it all boils down to is that every time you tried to help him he
reacted badly and each time after that he got slightly worse. Then he
changed tactics...he actively did to me what I now do to him. The big
difference is, I can prove everything I say...but papajohn...well as I said
some time back...he likes to lead with his chin and he likes to make others
look bad in his favour even when he is so wrong that it is near
embarrassing to point it out.
It is my view and the view of at least one other MVP, that to be awarded
that title you should have at least passed the basic Microsoft
Certification program and a separate technical exam on the subject you want
to be known as an expert in. I know several MVP's and am pretty sure they
would all be able to gain those qualifications with little or no work
before hand. Only a fool would think that of this particular MVP whose
recent endeavours include charging US $20 a year to receive an e-mail from
him and $50 to break apart a Movie Maker project into more manageable
pieces so that the user can continue his work...No No He gives out bad
information on his website (He claims that he does not put anything on his
website until he can prove its good advice by the way...see my earlier
comments on Responsibility) and he makes totally stupid remarks in here
"Network Aware", "Tracerts", "Digitally Signed Emails", "PerfectDisk",
"Programs Priority", "52 Newsgroups", "Tune Up", "USB Hard Drives" etc etc
etc
You think that my remarks are counter productive. All I can say then is
that you must have a very odd idea about what IS productive. Very
disappointing...especially as you seem to have made that remark after doing
a search of this newsgroup. Over the last year or so EVERY remark from me
about him has been to point out that his statements are wrong and then to
demonstrate why they are wrong...more recently I simply tell people he is
wrong and quite a few send me emails and I help them out privately. Very
recently I have had to put a stop to that...I have been getting more e-mail
about Movie Maker in one day than this newsgroup gets on occasion and I
have been completely swamped...I know a lot of people were upset by that
but there is only so much that can be done.
My intent is to correct his remarks so that the user does not get the kind
of deal others have. I will do this no matter how many idiots try to turn
it into a flame war or defend him. I now only post messages like this when
people such as yourself express some sort of sympathy for papajohn. I do
this so that you get a more complete picture of what has happened and why I
correct him now..AND why he does not deserve the qualification MVP
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Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
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