Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Hi group, just wanted to publicly remind a few people about
what an "interest group" is all about. I've had to respond to someone
with the email below. No names mentioned but I think it's worth
all people with questions to ask to have a read of. I don't want to start a flame war or anything but just asking some people to be a bit reasonable.

Cheers



No it's not too many questions more to do with I am not on my PC checking emails or yahoo groups every ten minutes of every day. Apart from my hobbies I am also a husband, a father and a student at University (Mature age)thus must spread my time accordingly. I am sorry if you are impatient for replies but I have other priorities which are more important.

As a father of 2 teenagers I deal with "poked with a stick" requests from them all day long. Poking, badgering etc will never get them what they want any quicker, generally it's the opposite. Now if you are a little more patient and not so much "in some ones face" for answers I will try, time permitting to help you out. From some of the answers you have given for my instructions, you appear to have every little experience in electronic repair or fault finding. I would first say if you doubt your abilities at all, get an experienced person to do the work required.

1) it will get the repair done far quicker
2) it will save the device from further damage

Some of the things you have asked me about have taken years to get experience in and can't simply be passed on in a few lines of an email. There are plenty of websites, book etc that deal with
electronics, micro-controllers etc so you should use them to help yourself get some knowledge before diving into an area you no nothing of. If a person can't be bothered doing their own research why should another person be expected to do it for them?

Remember the active members of a group give their time freely to help others with like interests. Some of the knowledge they have has been achieved by having to "nut" through or pay others to fix. Hitting them with a stick is unlikely to make them feel like passing it on to some one else.

So be reasonable with your requests, be patient and wait for a response and eventually you will get to where you want to be. Alternatively you can continue demanding a quick response and
get less and less people wanting to assist.

I am looking at your recent request for help and will get back to you with an answer as soon as I can. If that is not acceptable, I am sorry, my free time is not as great as I would like to have.

Richard