Hi, Dave

> On many hardware questions, particularly those that involve analog
> circuit design, I can often dash off a quick circuit diagram and post it
> to the PICLIST with near-total certainty that it will work exactly as
> advertised.  But I won't post even the tiniest snippet of PIC code,
> without having thoroughly tested it first.
>
> Know what you know; and, more importantly, know what you don't know.

    Sorry to disagree.... Some of us on the list do not have all the time we
would like to have to answer the questions and test the suggestions. It is a
common think for people that work on our area to have long 20 hours work
days and sometimes the piclist is a pleasure that is hard to keep. I have
used some of the "crazy" ideas that appear on the list on many ocasions,
both professionaly and in my hobby ( that happens to deal with the same
things I do for food :-) ). I do not have the time to really check all the
few answers I am able to give to the list but I think some of them have
helped people on the list.

    The kind of harsh words like you used in your message are, in my opnion,
one of the reasons why we have lost some very nice people that contributed a
lot to the list in the past. I am not saying in any way that you are wrong
technically but you could have expressed that in a nicer way. We are all
here to have fun with electronics and microprocessor not to figth with each
other for so little.

    Please do not take this as personal, it is not. You have been always a
very nice people ( to most of us ) but your message really sounded much
harsher than they needed to be.

    I hope I have not missed the point because of my poor english and wish
that all list members take the time to think how much we can hurt each other
fellings and "egos" when we write our messages. This is a community and in
my opnion a very nice one and we should be more "fraternal" with each other.

best regards,
Alexandre Guimaraes

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