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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - please read before posting - unofficial February posting
Charles,
While there is obviously useful information here, to someone in these groups almost everyday in my personal opinion these unofficial postings border on spam. I wish you didn't post it at all, but if you feel you must, I really would prefer you go bak to monthly. |
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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - please read before posting- unofficial February posting
Oh, hell, we've been trying to say this to Charles for at least five years
:-) We also tried to get him to stop knocking off our stuff and putting it on his own website. What irritates ME is the fact that Charles actually DOES know his stuff. If he would only post an "answer" occasionally, instead of a link, I would be a lot more supportive of his activities :-) On 24/2/06 3:58 AM, in article , "Greg" wrote: Charles, While there is obviously useful information here, to someone in these groups almost everyday in my personal opinion these unofficial postings border on spam. I wish you didn't post it at all, but if you feel you must, I really would prefer you go bak to monthly. -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - please read before posting - unofficial February posting
My email is at the bottom of each FAQ. Five years? I thought I was helping.
goodbye It's been nice. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" wrote in message ... Oh, hell, we've been trying to say this to Charles for at least five years :-) We also tried to get him to stop knocking off our stuff and putting it on his own website. What irritates ME is the fact that Charles actually DOES know his stuff. If he would only post an "answer" occasionally, instead of a link, I would be a lot more supportive of his activities :-) On 24/2/06 3:58 AM, in article , "Greg" wrote: Charles, While there is obviously useful information here, to someone in these groups almost everyday in my personal opinion these unofficial postings border on spam. I wish you didn't post it at all, but if you feel you must, I really would prefer you go bak to monthly. -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - please read before posting - unofficial February posting
Greg,
"While there is obviously useful information here, to someone in these groups almost everyday in my personal opinion these unofficial postings border on spam. I wish you didn't post it at all, but if you feel you must, I really would prefer you go bak to monthly." I am also in these newsgroups virtually every day. I began posting the FAQ, in the form of answers that had been given to these questions long before there was an MVP website. I had been using usenet newsgroups for some time and virtually every other newsgroup I belonged to had a regular FAQ posted. Since no one was doing it here, I started. At the suggestion of the MVPs, I created web pages with the answers and linked to them rather than post the answers. Since then, when appropriate, I have supplemented or replaced the links to my site with links to the MVP site or others. John, "We also tried to get him to stop knocking off our stuff and putting it on his own website." What have I knocked off and put on my website? I'll remove it. I took questions and answers that had appeared on the newsgroup and posted them. My site predates the MVP site by at least a year, I think. My page on posting suggestions (http://addbalance.com/word/netiquette.htm) is a knock-off, deliberately, because I didn't want to be saying anything different. It acknowledges that and points people to the source page. My page started out different and I changed it so that it towed the party line. You might note that in my newsgroup-posted FAQ the link is not to that page on my site, but to the official one. "What irritates ME is the fact that Charles actually DOES know his stuff. If he would only post an "answer" occasionally, instead of a link, I would be a lot more supportive of his activities :-)" Again, I was specifically requested to post links. Generally a link to a page that gives a comprehensive answer is more useful than an incomplete answer, IMHO. Most of the questions I answer are ones where there are pat answers, such as links to Shauna Kelly's page on numbering styles, or MVP FAQ pages. I try to answer questions where I think that what I post will help either the person who asked the question or someone who actually does search the groups. I try to not get in over my head. The note in my signature block about my ignorance is meant seriously, even if said humorously. I've learned a great deal from this newsgroup over the years; I enjoy sharing what I have learned and helping people. Sometimes it helps me to maintain my balance to help someone with a Word problem where I can help after facing legal problems that I can't help with. (The equivalent of how do I recover my masterpiece when I saved a different file on top of it with the same name, except with the legal problems, the consequences may be years in prison.) Both of you have enough management and leadership experience to know to criticize in private. I expected better of you. It is not as if I am hard to find or write to. I have a great deal of respect for you and the other MVPs. I have also received a number of thank-yous from non-regular users. I expect that the FAQ postings do cut down on the number of repetetive questions, but could be wrong. I was off-line for about a month in December and didn't post then. Most novices don't know enough to look for a FAQ or to do a Google search, and they'll keep asking the same questions. However, some do find it and use it. If the MVPs, as a group, ask me to stop posting the FAQ, I will do so. Keep in mind, that although the posted FAQ is not useful to you, you are not the intended audience. In the meantime, I will regard your opinion as just that, an opinion. Seriously, posting the FAQ takes time. I look at it as giving back to this community. If it is not, I would prefer to spend my time doing something else. I would prefer that such a request be made through an email, though. I think that what I have done here over the years deserves that amount of courtesy. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. |
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