So I offer my technical assistance to a user and next time I log in I see this??

NodeReaper says I've reaped your node Reaped: Re^2: regexp problem, square parentheses ("brackets"). Reason: ikegami: Reap for being offtopic. Relates neither to Perl nor to the parsing question at hand.

It would have been very kind of you to include a link to the reaped node instead of requiring one to look it up.

So I am being banned out there now? Listen..I have 22 years IT experience and I have TWO COLLEGE degrees! This is an outrage! I was merely trying to explain that if he was using IBM for DOS networking tools he probably wouldn't be having so much trouble network hacking.

You have not "been banned". The node has (had) been reaped.

BTW: although I concur with ysth's opinion that the node should not have been reaped due to its nature, after having read it now I also wholeheartedly agree with ikegami's opinion that it is horrendously, blatantly, annoyingly OT.

I have been one of those defending the idea that you are not a troll, against several different claims that you are, but I find that increasingly hard to believe. Your insistent, repeated, annoying, PITAful boasting about your alleged 22 years of experience and alleged degrees is not impressing anyone here! We judge you from what you write, and you've not made a good impression thus far.

I also got a private message from "merlyn" telling me to stop using all caps when I say "PERL" Oh what like he is some kind of big PERL expert???

Not only did legendary Perl hacker merlyn /msg you that, it has also already been repeatedly and sometimes extensively told you.

Gimme a break!

Give us a break!