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Subject:Re: Need help with a research project From:Tom Murrell <trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 6 Nov 2000 07:10:13 -0800 (PST)
--- Herman Holtz <h -dot- holtz -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net> wrote:
> > *sigh* Another week, another grad student trying to get us to do
> his
> > homework for him.
> >
> > Bill McClain
> > ("Writers are always selling somebody out." - Joan Didion)
>
> Quite so. I am constantly amazed at the insensitivity of people
> who think they can demand free services from strangers who earn their
> living selling those services. So many times I come home to find
> messages from readers of my books who leave me telephone numbers to
> call (almost always toll calls, of course) with not a hint of why I
> ought to even consider calling. - Herm
I don't think a request for data falls into the category of asking for
free services, nor do I think it is a request that we do the work for
the requester. Perhaps it is annoying--in both cases--to be bothered
with something we're not interested in doing, but it usually doesn't
take long to realize that a thread is not worth reading and delete it.
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