Really, honestly, do you think I hadn't already heard that? I'm 15; if I feel I need to know "new skills" regarding something, I know very well how to ask and I do. And as a piece of advice to you, many people - myself included only when the advice is being dumped on me by just about everybody by the truckload - get upset when you give them advice they have not asked for explicitly. While I do appreciate advice, I find it extremely annoying that everybody seems to think I need heaps and heaps of it. Frankly I am getting more than a little irritated over that. Of course I realise that nobody (ok, maybe a couple of people who know very well who they are but whose names I shall not mention) has anything but the best intentions when they give advice to me at least in this situation (and of course in most others), but honestly it is really being dumped on me, basically the same 7 or so things over and over, in much larger quantities than I actually need, want, or can accept graciously even if I try (seriously, to not reply to every single piece of advice people are giving me now with "Heard it. Now sht up and leave me alone" is taking quite a bit of effort at this point in time, not because I have anger management issues but because this is really getting out of hand). And back to the main topic, similarly while most of the advice that I have received has been given with nothing but the best intentions but is at ths point coming across as rude, patronising, unnessecary and a waste of my and others time, my actions which are being discussed (and reprimanded by just about everybody under the sun, often way more than once by the same person) were taken in nothing but the best of faith, and it did not occur that they would be received this way or that they would cause so much trouble and anger and whatnot for others, for had such occured to me beforehand I would most definitely have not done what I did. Of course it's probably very difficult for many to see why I'm becoming so distraught over what seems like a couple of bits of advice from a few people on the ML, but it's not just what's here but what's in #wikipedia, in private e-mail correspondence, in PMs, and teh like. (I have not yet received any "snail mail" regarding this issue) Of course not everybody here who has given me advice was aware that I have been flooded with advice recently, so rather than telling people they shouldn'tve done something that they did and with only the best of intentions and rather than screaming and yelling at them about it, I am telling now anybody else who is perhaps thinking of giving me some advice, in advance: *please*, no more advice for the next couple of days, especially if it's regarding this particular issue, unless I indicate explicitly that I want it. Thank you. --node On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:45:11 -0400, Mark Christensen <mchristensen(a)humantech.com> wrote: