RE: FLASH: My Rebuttal

[Rusty Worden]

Here here. Three cheers for Russell Unger!



At 09:03 AM 11/5/98 -0600, you wrote:

>I would love to leave this alone, but I think you are insulting a lot of

>people here.

>

>You mentioned that people just aren't honestly "looking" out there...

>

>Well, one of the reasons for this list, in my eyes, is to be a place for

>people to look.  I've no clue of JC's site, and I would gather that that is

>because I've not read an entire posting that it's been in--mostly because

>he's an answer man and if the problem doesn't pertain too much to what I'm

>doing at the time, I'll make a mental note of it and file it for later

>usage.  (I take that back--I do know of JC's site; my bookmark got dumped

>when NS4.5 installed this stupid LINKSYS thing).

>

>You spent more bandwidth reiterating your entire previous post, yet this

>time you expanded enough to let us know that you might have seemed arrogant.

>

>The complaining about Deadlines, etc. was perhaps the biggest smack in the

>face that I read in your entire post.  Comparing Flash developers to

>mechanics?  Wondering how "I" would feel if my mechanic had to run around

>looking for help, etc.  Let me tell you how I'd feel...I'd be overjoyed that

>"my mechanic" had the respect and courtesy to ME to go and ask for

>assistance in an area of which he or she was not 100% confident in his/her

>abilities rather than stumble blindly and guess.  You know, sometimes people

>post their "Deadliners" and let them sit while they sit and work on

>something else and can refer back to the list at a little bit later time and

>see if there's been assistance.  It appears to me that perhaps you do not

>think of persons who are not in situations that could be similar to

>yours...almost as if those other situations do not exist because of that

>reason.  I certainly doubt that you are an ostrich, and I think I'd

>appreciate it if you would extend a little more courtesy to a lot of the

>rest of us.

>

>We'll all agree to either having posted something a bit ridiculous or to

>being annoyed by something that was just covered yesterday...however, this

>list is to help.  If you don't like to help or don't need the help because

>of your existing manuals and your resources that you have already found and

>don't feel the need to share, then it would seem futile that you sit on the

>list.  (Please not the somewhat obvious sarcasm)  In the classes I teach, I

>often will get a question that I just answered for someone 5 minutes prior.

>It doesn't mean the persons an idiot; it just means they interpreted the

>solution in a different way.

>

>I'm done.  I won't waste anyone else's bandwidth with my feelings.

>

>Russell E. Unger

>

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