George wrote:

I have to waste more time explaining why I want to do something or
why I want certain information about measurement techniques, and
instead I get a bunch of arm-chair blow-hardts that think they
know better.

Poor you

No. Poor usenet.

Poor every future poster to any newsgroup that asks a simple technical
question and gets told by the peanut gallery that it's important to know
all the ancilliary circumstances surrounding the question when in
reality in the end those circumstances have no bearing on the question
or it's answer.