Shenan said:
I do hope no one takes this part of the thread as something agains
the cut n' paste answer. Sometimes, many time, it is more than
acceptable to answer several people the same. The trick is to be
sure that the cut n' paste answer you give actually:
- Applies to the question asked
- Has been modified to apply to the question asked
- Or it is noted that the cut n' paste answer should be followed or
examined for their particular answer and then perhaps followed in
full for a more desirable result.
And *if* (and it has happened to us all) you respond with such an
answer and are later called out for making the incorrect assumption
(ie: not reading the question or reading into the question
incorrectly) - you admit your mistake, apologize, and if possible,
rectify it with more useful information helpful to the OP.
Course, that is merely my opinion.
I cut n' paste answer quite a bit - although my cut n' paste answers
keep getting modified. hah
As long as it's relevant, and answers what the OP asked. Hell I cut and
paste my own words all the time! ;-) Hell, I wouldn't have anything on
microscum.com, if it wasn't copied and pasted from something I wrote on an
MS group! <vbg>
Carey has the tendency to cut and paste stuff that isn't relevant or only
tangentially so. It seems to me that Carey rushes answering as many posts
as he can, and in the process doesn't fully comprehend what is really being
asked. And then again, he is more often right than wrong, but because of
the number of threads that he answers, his mistakes are more visible than
most, because they are just more numerous. Believe me, I've made quite a
few snafus answering people with what I thought I read, instead of they
actually asked. Nobody is perfect, not even Alex.
My constructive criticism to Carey would be to just cut down on the number
of posts he answers, and spend a little more time on each post and his
replies before he hits the send button.
--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"
