Posted by max on 08/21/05 13:13

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:22:12 GMT, "Wings" <glenn61@earthlink.net> wrote:

>Thanks, Max.
>Someone finally hit the nail on the head.
>Too often the newsgroups are just someone's excuse to be a pissant.
>That said, I want to say that I do understand where Stefan's coming from.
>The problem though, is that too often someone is deep in a project, and some
>minor thing (to someone standing outside), for some reason ends up being a
>hair-pulling problem. It's not the time, when asking for a hand, to get sent
>to your 'correspondance course.'
>
[snip]
Indeed. The net is such a staggeringly powerful device for instant
communication that it seems a waste to use it other than to the max (no pun
intended....).
Also, we have all seen people ask for help because they are on a
time-critical / job-critical project and they have a number of pressures on
their plate in addition to what turns out to be a simple-query-simple-answer
event.
I agree we had no indication of that here, but for all we know the Original
Poster had his boss / girl-friend / pub-mates breathing down his neck -
"embarrassment-critical" we might call the last two... (That's stretching
things a bit, I know, but we've all been there!)

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