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Posted by Toby Inkster on 10/13/08 11:43
Chris Ianson wrote:
> Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>
>> fairly recent and deeply quotable Usenet expression[1]. I'm paraphrasing
>> that 'we are not your personal 24 hour help-desk,
>
> Els and Neredbojias and Evertjan and Toby Inkster and... would beg to
> differ.
No -- I'd agree with Leonard.
I think most of the people in this group are here to discuss HTML and
related subjects, and in doing so, perhaps learn something new, from the
newsgroup's collective wisdom.
A lot of questions are raised in the group, such as your question that
started this thread, and often discussion will arise from those questions.
If that discussion answers the original question, or the original poster
finds it to be beneficial in some other way, then that's great --
seriously, it is.
But if the original poster's question isn't answered, which is often
the case, then you've got to realise we're not been payed to answer
questions; we're not contractually obliged to.
Of course, most of the people here *are* helpful people, and are
especially inclined to help out if either the question itself is
interesting to them, or the poster seems to be polite/grateful for
any assistance that can be given. (And for that last reason, I'd
certainly recommend *against* adding "no discussion please, only
those able to help" to your subject lines!)
If you really need a question answering then there are consultants
out there who will be happy to help, but as Els said, make sure
you've got your credit card number handy. There are also forums like
Experts-Exchange.com which provide help on a barter system. There
again, people would be more obliged to provide help, rather than
just provide discussion.
> I asked a question, most of you nitpicked over my wrong use of some
> words shock horror (I would have expected you guys to know terminology
> from the most common HTML editor)
McDonalds is the most common restaurant in the world, but you shouldn't
expect *everyone* to be intimately familiar with their menus and pricing.
Indeed, you should expect the gourmets of the world to be even *less*
familiar with McDonalds food than the general public.
I've used Dreamweaver once, but that was several years ago so my memory
of it is hazy. (I have trouble enough remembering last week!) I expect
the terminology to have changed since then (~ version 3.0) anyway.
Here we use a variety of different tools for editing HTML/CSS/PHP/etc, so
we try to avoid product-specific terminology, and just use the terms
as defined in the relevent specifications. It avoids a lot of confusion.
(e.g. the word "layer" in Dreamweaver and in Netscape 4.x mean two
entirely different things. So, it seems, does the word "bookmark".)
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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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