Re: Is this a clique? No one gave me the secret handshake!

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

Howard seems to think he is entitled to free advice, but mailing lists
and newsgroups don't work that way. Basically people answer either
questions that are interesting enough to invest some effort in, or
simple questions that they can answer instantly. If you ask a question
and get no answer it simply means that no one considers the question
interesting and/or no one knows an answer. Sure there is enough expertise
on the list that almost any question could be answered by someone *if* they
invested the time, but no one is being paid on a group like this to spend
time helping other people!

And of course some people *do* like to chatter about controversial issues :-)