[ic] Question for the Guru..

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Brendan Crosser-McGay (brendan@paymentonline.com):
> Oh ok, I'm sorry I won't ask ya questions directly anymore, I just wanted to
> know if I should keep going with it.  I'll try to do it I suppose,
> Interchange is a great learning experience thats for sure. :)
> 

Oops, I thought it was sent directly to me and not on the list,
sorry. My bad. Not that you necessarily would have got an answer on the
list, either. ;-)

As for the reason for this, I have found that the appetite for free
consulting is insatiable, and no matter how much I said I would
answer one question but could not answer all, people still asked
question after question.

This applied to telephone calls too, and so I just made a strict policy
-- I don't answer random questions about Interchange. There are too many
users, and that point was reached about 4 years ago in Minivend days.

I of course make some exceptions -- for instance if Racke, Kevin, Ed, or
Dan B. (just to name a few) ask me a direct question, I answer, for I
know that they will pay me back 10 times by spreading that knowledge on
this list. I also know they have done all possible research before asking.

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