mike_mccue
The thing I like about getting help and helping via public forum is the fact that it can instigate collateral awareness.
PM help is a noble calling. It seems like a huge responsibility, to me, to commit to helping like that. Good for any and all that take on that task.
I find the public forum format rewarding because the collateral awareness is traveling in "all-kinda" directions and I find that I often learn stuff that I may have never thought about with out the varied inputs available in a public setting.
best regards,
mike
I can't remember who it was now, but ages ago I sent a PM to someone asking for some 'private' help with a problem I was having. It was something to do with
Home Studio 6 and I really didn't want to look like a complete plonker in front of the likes of Daveny and Papa by posting my total newb question in the HS forum.
The reply I got was that I should post the question in the forum (turns out it wasn't as embarrassing as I'd thought) and that the guy I'd PM'd would answer it there. His reasoning was that by answering the question in public it would add to the common knowledge base, and in any case, someone else was bound to ask it again sometime.
That actually made a lot of sense, and I've often replied to PMs from others seeking assistance in the same manner.
As Karl correctly points out, the daftest question is often the one that
doesn't get asked.
BTW
Beag, was it you who I PM'd all those years ago?