:::Jerry:::: wrote:

This group really is showing up the rational behind Part P in the last
few days... :~(

How do you figure that?

I would say the *group* is providing the correct answers to this
question everytime someone asks it.



Oh yes I agree, but sometimes those question and answers are coming
*after* work has started, when the person doing the work obviously
doesn't have a clue to start the job - no problem with people asking
how to do the job, I just wish that they would ask first and be
realistic about their abilities...

Perhaps you missed part of the thrust of my question, i.e. since what
the OP is doing is outside the scope of part P anyway (i.e. a minor
work) how is it supposed to help? Part P makes the law into an ass
whichever way you look at it.

You do raise an intersting question however: How are we to be
"realistic" about our abilities without knowing where the limits of
those lay? How do we test where those are without actually attempting to
do something and reaching them? Surely reaching the limits of ones
abilities is not a significant event in itself, what we do next however
is significant (e.g. seek help, give up, press on regardless). In an
ideal world we could research every step of a job from start to finish
before starting, but the real world has a habit of not being so
deterministic.

--
Cheers,

John.

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