<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I’m sorry… but who are you?<div><br></div><div>As Bert Hubert wrote in:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/anonymous-help/">https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/anonymous-help/</a></div><div><br></div><div>> <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Open Sans", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">First, I just consider it rude. You come at me hiding who you are but still expect me to do free work for you. Try doing that in real life. What were you thinking? Not introducing yourself AND using a fake identity?</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Open Sans", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">> Second, I have found that this anonymity also means respondents feel free to simply walk away with no damage to their reputation. You report a complicated bug, I spend some time investigating, ask about details, and I get no response. Some weeks later a very similar question comes in from a fresh email address, likely the same person, still not wanting to do the work to get help.</span></div><p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Open Sans", Roboto, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">> Third, my software and other products can be used for good or evil. If I don’t know who you are, am I enabling you to build the new Turkish censorship infrastructure, or helping you implement the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Russia" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out; border-bottom-width: 0.125em; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(189, 189, 189);">Роскомнадзор block list</a> more efficiently? These are two examples that actually happened by the way.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Open Sans", Roboto, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">This is just an excerpt, you should read the whole thing to understand what’s wrong.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Open Sans", Roboto, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">More over - if you want community help for *free* you should show that you’ve tried, and you’ve tried hard - show that you’ve read the documentation, show us the work (code) that you wrote and didn’t work.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Open Sans", Roboto, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Using free software means that you have to participate, not that you get stuff for free.</p><div>Ondrej<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ondřej Surý (He/Him)</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 22. 9. 2024, at 20:19, Rm Beer <rmbeer2@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>I need example codes for the initial handshake for C codes that use</span><br><span>normal I/O sockets.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I need codes for Server DNS, Server HTTPS, Server IMAP, POP3, and STMP.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I found only this:</span><br><span>https://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/GnuTLS-application-examples.html</span><br><span></span><br><span>But those examples are incomplete and don't exist for the servers that i need.</span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Gnutls-help mailing list</span><br><span>Gnutls-help@lists.gnutls.org</span><br><span>http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnutls-help</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>