[Joe Forster/STA]

@jhuk: Sorry about the age reference, then, as I'm only 31!

I've also been very helpful for many years, as a high school and university student, but then 1) I got a job and the amount of my spare time dropped exponentially and 2) I realized that it shouldn't be me spending my time with answering questions asked directly or indirectly at me, rather the people asking questions should educate themselves more, by reading relevant material on the Net, which is what the Netiquette also suggests. (Yeah, I do read docs and FAQ's, whenever I have time to, because I just love learning new things!)

In my opinion, the very existence of this forum, with the great amount of information contained in it, is already very helpful for newbies, so I see no reason to babysit them even more. With the current, frighteningly low level of education in general, people should learn to learn, otherwise the last generation of knowledgable people will die out in a few decades and the remaining idiots won't know how to do anything!

(Yeah, yeah, I know, it's one of "those" posts of mine again, sorry...)