Re: Personal and Professional Training

From: anonymous (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:30:39 -0700

>"Please stick around and be helpful by answering
questions."

What are the chances of that happening after being called:

>"disingenuous"
>"you're incompetent"
>"look silly"
>"undermines your credibility"
>"you are incompetent"
>"you clearly don't understand newsgroups"
>"it doesn't represent you as someone I'd want to hire."

Is this really a "newsgroup"?

After being described in such a manner, I can only
conclude that this "is hardly a ringing endorsement of
your professionalism."

>-----Original Message-----
>In article <sam457.1b5dr7@excelforum-nospam.com>,
> sam457 <<sam457.1b5dr7@excelforum-nospam.com>> wrote:
>
>> I do applogize for offending anyone.
>
>It's not a matter of being offended. It's a matter of
keeping spam off
>these groups.
>
>No matter what your intentions, you clearly don't
understand the medium
>you're posting to:
>
> - Simply from geography, your target audience is less
than 1% of the
>total readership of the groups. That alone makes your
post spam, since
>you wasted the time of 99%+ of us. If everyone who
thought they were a
>trainer posted a advertisement to the group, the
usefulness of the group
>would be seriously degraded.
>
> - You multiposted, so that the majority of regular
readers, who read
>at least 3 or 4 of the groups you posted to, have to deal
with your
>advertisement multiple times.
>
>> I...wanted to let others know there is another
alternative.
>
>This seems awfully disingenuous. Do you really think that
most readers
>are unaware that there are trainers available?
>
>> As for the misspelled word, I am human and even though
I ran it
>> through the spell check it slipped through.
>
>Sorry - don't buy it. If you really ran it through a
spell checker, then
>you're incompetent in cutting and pasting. Far easier to
believe that
>you simply failed to spell check. Either way, it doesn't
represent you
>as someone I'd want to hire.
>
>> You can take my message off if it is that inappropriate.
>
>Again, you clearly don't understand newsgroups. Your post
went to
>thousands of news servers all over the world - there's no
mechanism for
>"taking (it) off", and it will be archived by Google
forever.
>
>> I am an instructor and do have the competence and
knowledge to put
>> this out there.
>
>But you are incompetent when it comes to the medium you
chose to put
>your message "out there". That's not a fatal flaw, but
it's also not an
>excuse when you're corrected. At best it's irritating. At
worst, it
>undermines your credibility and makes you look silly.
>
>> I...just want to help!
>
>Me too - that's why I'm replying to you. Please stick
around and be
>helpful by answering questions. It's appreciated, and it
happens to be
>excellent advertising (I don't even post a signature
line, and I average
>multiple inquiries each day).
>.
>

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