Re: OT: Re: [exim] Looking for solutions - not to debate why…

Ian Eiloart wrote:

> Really, so if my wife gives me emotional support when I get sacked, she
> should expect payment? When a building is supported by its foundations,
> some kind of financial transaction between the two is to be expected?

This discussion is becoming pedantic and became off-topic long ago, anyway.

Nevertheless: Support in general is not necessarily something you have
to pay for. But the things people say or write also has to be seen in
context. This is not a self-help group to give people emotional support,
and the only things we build here are mail systems.

Technical support is almost always something that implies a
vendor-client relationship and therefore flow of (real or virtual) money
is involved. Somebody talking about a "support process" clearly refers
to such a relationship. People help here each other out of fun,
interest, personal satisfaction or whatever, but surely not for getting
money. That's why people are sensitive about the bad s-word. People come
here legitimately to discuss and of course to get help (which often
comes after some discussion). Of course some people come to get
"support", but they don't get many friends here... no big surprise.
I'm only astonished with how much self-esteem some people have - they
even believe that the thread they started belongs to them and nobody is
allowed to push the discussion(!) into another direction.