Re: Yet more validation ... challenges!


"Leslie Isaacs" <leslie.isaacs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e8yI7v8GIHA.4880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Bob

Sorry, I hope I haven't pushed the boundary of of your good will too far!
Actually, I never cease to be amazed by the fact that such high quality
help is freely available in these newsgroups. I for one have benefitted
hugely from them over the years (mainly from the access ng's) - and also
hugely from yourself and Rick recently.


We all do one way or another Les. I got a bit of help when I started back,
and I now have a network of people I can call on for specific problems
(no-one minds as long as it isn't abused), and there are always other topics
that I don't know as well.


I'm going to ask - for the first time: why do you all do it? Is it a means
of geeting fee-paying contract work, or is the MVP qualification with
something tangible to you, or are you all simply very generous with your
time and expertise?


I can only speak for myself, althoughI bet the rest are much the same, but I
do it for fun. It is good to see the sort of problems people really
encounter, and help them solve it. And it is nice getting 'to know' someone
over the groups, I have even met up with some of them at events and the
like. I haven't gotten anything in the way of consultancy from the groups, I
get far more by recommendation or from meeting people at seminars,
conferences and the like, but it doesn't hurt to have something tangible to
show people to backup my claims of myself <g>.

And of course, we learn ourselves by following posts. Only yesterday, I
found a way of linking a textbox on a *** to a cell, soemthing I wasn't
aware of. It is symbiotic.

And of course, there is tons of free stuff available on the net that I avail
myself of regularly. I guess I intrinsically believe that we should do these
things for free, give and get.


Whatever the answer, the result is a rare (unique?) example of where the
world is as it should be!


The net can good and bad. I agree, this is one of its finer manifestations.


That was a new and more specific way of saying "Thanks"!

Les
BTW: I like "By the cringe", but what is <bg>

The <bg> is net shorthand for big grin, seeing as we can't add smileys to
the NGs. It was my way of saying, I am only joking in the preceding
statement, or that you aren't pushing the the boundary of goodwill too far.

Others are <g> for grin, <ebg> for extra big grin or even bigger grin, plus
all the usual acronymns like ROFL, LOL, etc.



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