>> Thank you VERY much for all your wonderful comments, really helpful.
OH NO. Thank you! so VERY, VERY much for spending our time so much more freely than your own. That's what we're here for. [BTW, those comments really could have helped you; far more than you apparently realize.] The next time you'd like a number of free simultaneous consultations, you might consider framing the question(s) so that people coming cold to a new situation have an easier time understanding the problem(s)... and you might do that after really trying to solve the problem, or at least just tackle the basics. At least supply some code; that would both show the effort and further describe, in much more detail, what the goal is and what any ancillary issues may be. And if it would be too embarrassing to submit code, that's a good hint that you need to do more work. (At least in those cases you realize it. When venturing into new areas, we often don't even know enough to be embarrassed--in which case, luckily enough, it's that much less embarrassing anyway.) Even if a request is totally off base, technical forum participants are much more likely to (try to) help, if they can see that some real effort was put into it---we love doing other people's work for them. Re-reading your own message and editing it helps a lot too. When I'm deep into a problem and still thinking in code, any prose (documentation, notes, email) I write sounds quite adequate... then if I come back to it after not-that-much time away from coding, I can have a very hard time understanding what the heck I just wrote. Imagine if it's someone else... Of course, you can continue to do things this way... but you might get a lot fewer answers, or commentary like this... And before you get any huffier, who might this message help? Me or you? The "politics" of free support are really often amazing. I've seen the age-old message to go RTFM received far more gracefully on PAID support forums for PAID (and expensive) products than for free and open source solutions. Oh yeah... Customary technical mailing list/forum etiquette (for real problems anyway) would be to share the solution, thus contributing back to the people you so easily and cheaply requested help from. Instead of declaring "SOLVED." Now you left us on the edge of our seats! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ synalist-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synalist-public
