At 7:45 PM -0400 8/29/00, Ron Miller is rumored to have typed:
And don't let everyone get to you too much, I just figured it out for myself not too long ago after asking the same question for another reason and getting no help either.
Now that's interesting; I found a question from you on 21 August (subjected "Assistance" - real descriptive, that), and _answers_ to you, on a completely different issue - had to do with changing the subscribe message. Both Rich and Francois answered you giving you good and valid information...I would count this as "help," although apparently you wouldn't. Perhaps you just didn't get the answer you _wanted._
We don't all have the superior knowledge some seem to.
If you're willing to learn, I'm willing to teach you for nothing. If you want me to do your work _for_ you because you don't have time to learn, you will pay me. It's as simple as that. Ask around...I have had long off-list teaching sessions with a bunch of people on here. I have also completely ignored questions where it's obvious the person asking never bothered to even read the installation files; perhaps that's why I didn't answer you when Rich and Francois did.
They seem to forget they had to learn somehow as well and asking a question is not necessarily being lazy some are just trying to learn.
I learned most of what I know about SmartList by 1) reading the postings in this list, 2) reading the code in the package, and 3) experimentation...not necessarily in that order of inportance, since experimentation is the most important of all, but should almost always come chronologically _after_ the other two. If you check the archives, you'll find I've asked few questions over the years, and when I did only _after_ I attempted to deal with the problem on my own through experimentation. I ain't perfect, but I expect as much (more) from myself as I expect from everyone else. So like the old saying goes, "don't teach your grandmother how to suck eggs." And on a personal note, PLEASE learn how to use your email client software to edit your quotations when you post to a mailing list; just because this list doesn't reject on over-quoting, that doesn't mean it's a good idea to simply include my entire letter for no good reason in your reply. (Especially when you send me personally two seperate copies, as well as including one copy to the list.) Charlie