Re: Yet more validation ... challenges!

Les,

No mate, you are way off! My daughter is in NZ at this moment, but I
personally have never been to either, or even south of the equator.

I am 250 miles south of you, in Dorset, by the glorious Jurassic coastline.
I thought that 'By the cringe' would have given it a way.

--
HTH

Bob

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy)

"Leslie Isaacs" <leslie.isaacs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Bob

Sounds good to me: wonder when I'll be posting answers myself!
Where are you, BTW. I cannot find any identifying nationalistic nuances in
your posts, but my guess would be Australia or New Zealand. Am I in the
right hemisphere?

Les



"Bob Phillips" <bob.ngs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Leslie Isaacs" <leslie.isaacs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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