I made the same offer, with no response.

At 06:59 PM 8/21/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Steve,
>
>People have tried to help you. Case in point, you emailed me directly 
>asking me the following....
>
>"Now, would you please list, very methodically, all of the various steps 
>involved in installing Tomcat?! Incidentally, I am trying/attempting to 
>install version 4.0.4 without too damned many problems that I might encounter."
>
>I responded with the following....
>
>"First I'd have to know what OS you are installing on.  I won't be able to 
>give out any Unix specific install info since I work on Windows.  I also 
>need to know what difficulties you are having with your current 
>install.  I'd love to help you, but I'm not going to run through every 
>last detail of an install because that is what the existing docs and the 
>archives of this list are for.  Once you give me some base info to work 
>from, we can try to figure out the issue you are having."
>
>
>I am still awaiting a response letting me know what you are having trouble 
>with, specifically.  If you aren't going to bother writing back 
>information that I need to help you out, I'm not going to go out of my way 
>to help you.  I offered my help and you ignored the offer.  The only 
>reason I can see for this behavior is that you want the solution spoon-fed 
>to you so others do the work for you and you just benefit from the advice 
>without having to do much of any work.  Please don't flame back at me for 
>this statement.  If you believe the statement is a mis-characterisation of 
>your intent, then prove me wrong by actually providing some evidence that 
>you, in fact, *have* read the available documentation.  Until you do this, 
>you have nothing to say to anyone else and no one else has *any* 
>obligation to answer your pleas for help.
>
>Note:  I am still willing to help you out, but please take the above into 
>account before asking for more help in the future.  Make sure you define 
>what you have done so far and what exactly you are having difficulty 
>with.  No one here will write a book for you just in case one of those 
>steps might just solve your issue.  Narrow your scope and you might get 
>some better responses....and please stop with the "this is Steve Burris" 
>in your email.  We know who you are based on the "from" header in the 
>email.  You don't need to tell us again.
>
>later,
>
>Jake
>
>
>
>At 12:50 PM 8/21/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>>  This is Steve Burrus again, and I am damned sorry to have to post my 
>> plea for
>>help/assistance again, but everyday when I first access my email there are
>>literally 100's of postings from other members of the Tomcat newsgroup, 
>>and my
>>original post--and any response--is VERY DIFFICULT to locate, so here it 
>>is again:
>>   How exactly does one go about installing the Tomcat 4.0.* correctly??? 
>> I have
>>"racked my brain" in trying to figure out how to do this, but I simply 
>>cannot do
>>it myself, I am afraid to say! Thanx in advance to anyone who can help me!
>>
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