>>I suggest to compose a small, standard, note, similar to this:
>>"Please understand that, while I am willing to help other people with programming problems, I only do this on public places like the UT, so that others can benefit as well. The only exception is paying clients."
>
>I receive lots of private emails with questions weekly, and I also answer like you said... but there's some people who *really* do not understand that... it's incredible... :(
Perhaps a longer message is warranted - but make it standard (so you only have to copy and paste), make clear it is your standard message, and give sufficient reasons (individual attention takes too much time, in the case of public messages, other people can profit from the exchange, etc.)
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
