>I seriously consider to carefully select to whom I provide help in the future.
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>I see more and more cases where people ask the same question here and on other FoxPro forums, but never give any feedback whether my answer was helpful or not. And they never say thank you as if they take free help for granted.
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>I want to help people, I really do, but when people are too arrogant, cheap or lazy to say thank you, I feel taken advantage of, and now enough is enough. I am tempted to publicize a list of whom I have in mind, but I will refrain from doing so. However, I may answer some of these people with a reference to this message in the future, to let them know how I feel.

I completely agree.

I might add I have pretty much had to refrain from answering on the VFP forum as too often when I see a very beginner question my only thought is "If that is the learning investment you have in VFP at this stage for god's sake go apply your learning efforts to something else - where you can probably Google for an answer and where you may have some marketable skills when you hit journeyman level about 2016"

I realize this would sometimes be inappropriate as the questioner may have his choice of language dictated to him. I understand when accomplished VFP developers choose to continue using their skills, but I do feel sorry for someone who is asking questions that say to me they have a 5 year learning curve ahead of them in VFP.