Re: Public Ask / Private Answer (Was About the search question)

sometimes it is hard to ask for a lot of advice. I have learned much from
every list that I have been on, but never do I have a charge. I do most of
my work pro bono, and my site is a support site. I pay $300 per month for a
server, and have been doing so for 3 years. Stupid to many, but from my
heart to me.
Lisa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Lapcewich" <dlapcewich(at)intira.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Cc: <thorn(at)cc.mcgill.ca>; <bobcornelissen(at)hetnet.nl>; "'Webmaster'"
<nstar92(at)bellatlantic.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 12:24 PM
Subject: Public Ask / Private Answer (Was About the search question)


> Well, please consider that responses provided to this list, and other
lists
> like this one, offer advice for *no* charge, other than a thank you or a
URL
> to see the results of that advice.
>
> <.high horse="on">
> How much pro bono web design and development do you do?  How much free
> advice do you pick up on this list, turn around and charge a client for
your
> services you learned here?  How much free advice do *you offer here* for
> others to benefit?  People here volunteer their professional and personal
> insight, techniques, *time*, code snippets, etc., in that we all learn
> something and help each other.  And they do so, knowing many will
> incorporate that knowledge into their business and make money from it.
> Nothing wrong with that.
>
> Also, I'm sure many on this list who offer their free advice publicly are
> contacted privately for further advice, and paid for it.  Nothing wrong
with
> that.
>
> However, is it fair to ask for free help, but only respond privately so
that
> only *you* can benefit from the free advice, and increase your personal
> bottom line?  Gee, I thought Alex P. Keaton was only a TV character, but I
> seem to find more and more of them everyday.  :)
> <./high horse="off">
>
> Dennis
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Webmaster [mailto:nstar92(at)bellatlantic.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 7:36 AM
> > Subject: Re: About the search question
> >
> >
> > I do not understand why we cannot write for a personal response???
> > I agreee that at times a post can trigger a slew of nasty responses.
> > Lisa
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <bobcornelissen(at)hetnet.nl>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 5:02 AM
> > Subject: About the search question
> >
> >
> > Hi Ron and listers,
> >
> > Yes Ron, I also agree with you and Rob that all questions AND
> > especially
> > answers should be sent to the list so everybody can benefit
> > from it or maybe
> > suddenly see a different way of doing things for their own sites.
> > I already had a discussion with Rob why I asked for personal
> > answers. It was
> > not intended from me to deprive the list of any interesting
> > answers. Again
> > it was not meant like that. On other lists I have been on
> > most messages
> > meant as a direct discussion with a person mostly trigger name-calling
> > contests that people should write to those persons
> > personally. Because this
> > list works differently I appologise.
> >
> > Back to the question at hand.
> >
> > You say there is a simple way of perl-scripting to take <tr>
> > table rows out
> > of a html table that contain a certain word or string and
> > paste the rows
> > <tr>string+other stuff in this row</tr> into a table on this
> > page or a new
> > one. It would be triggered by typing a word into a text-filed
> > and pressing
> > submit.
> > Maybe put the initial long table on a separate page in order
> > not to create a
> > long wait for the viewer.
> > I would love to see how you wrote this code.
> >
> > At this moment I am also looking into using asp to search
> > through an excel
> > sheet and take the wanted rows out. I think both methods have
> > advantages and
> > disadvantages. But I would be interested in the script.
> >
> > Thanks very much for your help,
> > bob
> >
> > BobCornelissen(at)hetnet.nl
> >

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