Your statements are simply not true! Below are direct quotes from the
previous thread. Your last line explicitly suggests that I indictate my
offer of help is fee-based in my "call me" messages. I took your suggestion
since then and have tried to do that in each "call me" message. Take a look
at my response in this thread. I said "My fees are very reasonable"; just as
you suggested.


I know that and provide a lot of free support in the Access newsgroups!

True, but that is not the issue you are being taken to task on. It is your
offering to help without disclosing the cost.

...... When you post any of your "call me" messages, you need to indicate
that
unlike other offers of help, your help comes at a price.

Steve


"John Marshall, MVP" wrote in message
...
What has posting a question or an answer got to do with credibility? He
raises a legitimate point, but you respond by personally attacking him.
The newsgroups are full of lurkers who find answers to their questions or
enhance their knowledge by reading the newsgroups without having to post a
question or an answer, .

Are you such a novice to newsgroups that you do not understand that David
uses disucussions.microsoft.com as part of his user name to prevent his
email address being harvested? I'm willing to bet his name really is David
Mueller and that your parents names are not the Datasheets.

You enjoy twisting comments about your behaviour to fit your behaviour.
Are you sure you are not a lawyer? You have the ambulance chasing part
down pat.

In a previous thread I mentioned that at least someone did mention that
there was cost to their help. You twisted that to be that I considered
that form of advertising was ok. I consider that case to be similar to
someone tossing a hand grenade in a room versus someone tossing a hand
grenade in a room and yelling DUCK! The second version is slightly better
because it did warn the occupants about what could happen, but that does
not mean I agree with throwing hand grenades into occupied rooms.

John... Visio MVP

"PC Datasheet" wrote in message
link.net...
You have no credibility whoever you are!

You have not posted or responded in the Access newsgroups in the past
three years and you hide behind discussions.microsoft.com trying to avoid
being traced.

Steve


"David Mueller" wrote in message
news
Steve,

My dad, who clicks twice when he only needs to click once, already knows
that newsgroups are not the place for commercial activity. If Sharan
wanted
for-hire services she wouldn't have posted here. You know that!!!

a large number of participants in this newsgroup are opposed to your
crass
commercial activities

I am one of the large number of participants in this newsgroup that is
opposed to your commercial activites. And just because its Columbus
Day, and
I don't have much to do, I'll waste my time to tell you.

Normally, the large number of us don't bother to post, but from now on,
I
think I will. Most of us roll our eyes and grunt over at the 15-20
seconds it
took for your post to load, and for us to read it. That is 20 seconds
of our
lives that we'll never get back.

You write well enough that I know you're not as thick as you act. For
someone who admits to reading news groups for many years, you know darn
well
that solicitation/commercial activity is not welcome.


What concrete evidence do you have to support this statement?


Stop hiding behind a lack of concrete evidence. Social groups have what
are
called mores (mo * res) that are not documented, but are accepted and
expected of the group.

Please move on to something else.