There is a difference between being a "newbie", and asking questions without trying to work out the answer yourself. There are so many posts on the UT these days, that constant questions without some initial self-research is frustrating to everyone. Reading the help files, searching the UT for past messages that are similar to your problem, and searching the Microsoft Knowledge Base are what I would consider to be first steps in solving a problem. Posting a new thread here should only be done after these other resources have been tapped, in my opinion.

>Boys (most of the girls in here are more polite), this UT seems (lately) to be not much different than NGs (if you don't know what a NG is, it's NewsGroups, by Al Gore). OTs (Off Topic) are amoung the LONGEST threads in any discussions. People are fighting over their pride? I simply ask questions and yes, some of them may be a simple thing that I could be totally overlooking. In spite of those comments (with pictures of members) in the home page saying that "UT is the BEST ever...", "UT helped me so much", "UT < you fill in whatever you desire >", when I first came in here in some yearS ago, this WAS that way (a very, VERY friendly place) and I was little more involved back then (yet never as a paid member) with this UT. What has happened to some of the MEMBERS today (not the UT since UT is only a website)!? Sad that you "superior", MVP, "holier-than-thou" are now at a stage that the word "humble" does not apply to you anymore (of course, this does not apply to Mark McCasland, Michel
>Fournier, and many others that deserved to be named in right here) ? Indeed bad enough that a gentleman even have to say the following below:
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>> < snip > and I'll ignore all his messages from now on.
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>I am not even thinking about UT being split into two parts (NEWBIES (if thats what you want to call it) and SUPERIORS). you know it's funny that when a business opens up for the very first time, everyone is friendly and happy, until ... I am sure you can figure the rest out (since you indeed are the supposed SUPERIOR ones, correct?). I KNOW I could and should not type all this, but I am trying to point out the attitude problem in here. Jesus Christ was correct that when a member of the body is sick, ALL of the body is affected (yet functional but still bothersomed by a sick part of the body). Must the SUPERIORS laugh along with other SUPERIORS and when a HUMBLE wants to laugh along with the SUPERIORS, the SUPERIORS then laughs AT the HUMBLE(S)?
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>Don't worry about me, I am OK, I am fine, just experancing the same directions from elsewhere, becoming a common grounds for the "America, the beautiful". Maybe there is such thing as "TOO MUCH FREEDOM" (and for that, I indeed include myself, amen).
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>Today's Friday, YEAR 2001, who cares what year it is, it's the same yesterday, today, and forever? LOL (as in Loads Of Love)
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>Chuck