Signature Help

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When asked his whereabouts on Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 06:24:03AM -0700,
fp at casabellagallery.com took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
> 
> > I have a signature in a jpeg file and would like to place it on a form.  
> > My printer is an Okidata b6200 (hplaser) and I am currently running Unix 
> > filepro.  Thank you in advance.
> 
> You can go to  http://www.fpgroups.com/index.php?Target=akb
> and read the article about MKPCL or can you can go directly to the source
> and learn that and more (and of course, buy MKPCL from Jim Asman)
> 
> http://www.spectracolorservices.com/contact_information.htm
> 
> After reading through this you should be able to get your project done.
> Should you need additional assistance, come back here and let us know!
> 
> Good luck!

Jose, I'm starting to have a personal problem with your methodology.
Please let me try to politely explain what (and why) that is.

When someone asks a question, they're asking it of the audience they are
addressing directly.  Let's take an example that hits very close to what I
see your attempts emulating, and why I really dislike it.

I play World of Warcraft, and have for a long time now.  There's a site,
thottbot.com, that has pretty much every know snippet of information about
the game.

When I ask a question of other players in-game, it is not because I do not
know where thottbot is or how to use it.  It is a matter of convenience,
and in some cases, socialisation in the way you might get someone's extra
perspective or take on something than you currently got.  It also ***does
NOT remove you from the moment***.

When anyone (not just me, anyone I see asking a question) is answered with,
"Thottbot it," I get rather miffed.  I find it an exexplicably lazy
interaction with their fellow players, and a near complete lack of
willingness to help their fellow person.  It's not that the reference isn't
there, it's not that I don't know how to use it.  It's that I turn to
someone specifically for help and I'm fobbed off.  If I wanted to look it
up, that option is available to me.  Same as a dictionary is to anyone.
How often do people just ask how to spell something or what something
means, rather than look it up?  But it's too much hassle to give a straight
answer...some people have to redirect you to some site somewhere where the
magic information is laying, rather than just relating what they know of
the matter.

That is annoying in and of itself.  It would be far more annoying to me if
I knew, for example, that the person replying thus also had an interest in
thottbot, and thus any revenue that stemmed from its use, if that were the
case.  In your case, the 'revenue' is simply more traffic.

If you're going to insist on referring to fpgroups.com, which obviously has
been a point of contention, I would personally ask that you at least
provide a -real, substantive- answer in your message, and then also mention
that some information is archived at a particular location.  There are
times when a reference is enough--especially for OT things (ie., SCO TA
#'s, etc.).  There are also times to just answer the damned question as it
was asked, without ulterior motive.

I personally feel you're on the edge of a slippery slope in that regard.
And it's starting to grate, quite honestly.  We know it exists.  Nobody
could have missed it, after all the discussion in the last month.  If
someone wanted to check it, they would have.  They either didn't, or didn't
want to.  They wanted a real reply from someone -here-.

I don't have a problem with your project.  I have a problem with how you're
twisting things to suit your project's aims/goals...what have you.  Please,
let it live or die on the work you're doing with it, with maybe a note in
your .sig pointing to it; but please stop shoving it down people's throats,
either out of laziness or a desire to self-promote.  I suspect it's the
latter.  There's such a thing as pushing your luck, ya know?

Please reconsider your tactics.

Bests,

mark->
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