On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 08:29:41AM -0800, Christopher Layne wrote: >On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 04:14:06PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:01:23PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> >> And, just in case you're wondering if I am going to volunteer to help you >> >> track down problems - I'm not. So, maybe anyone who wants screen should >> >> volunteer to help. >> > >> >No, that was not my intention. I was trying to be courteous. But that's a >> >two-way street. Forget it, I won't bother next time. >> >> Since you were pinging me and since (on rereading) you were consistently >> asking for help, I don't think it was a huge leap for me to surmise that >> you might be wanting my help debugging problems. By stating my >> intentions, I wanted to make it clear that someone else needs to step >> in. > >You know this kind of things just shuts people off and turns them away right? >People are trying to make progress, trying to make things better, and they're >basically being told to go away. If he could do it himself, I'm sure he would >have solved the issue by now. If he can't, perhaps he needs the help. I don't >see what's so groundbreaking about "I'm not going to be able to help you with >it now as I'm too busy, but perhaps throw the idea out there along with your >observations and see who else bites." Is that somehow worse than "Look, I don't >have the time to help you track down problems, find someone else." ?
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