LabVIEW
Logical question, it's not enought to know LabVIEW, it's necessary intelligence...
Thank you, Ben! No apologies necessary on behalf of the forum...it was not the fault of the forum, but of one individual. And it didn't really bother me all that much. I have sufficient confidence in myself and in my abilities to be able to give that kind of thing the credit it deserves -- which would be none. 
Actually, due to an old family joke, most of the attacks held quite a bit of humor for me. There is a series of childrens' books, starring the Stupid family, that my family has always found utterly hilarious. My dad started referring to himself as Father Stupid (FS, for short). When my brother had children, he became Father Stupid and my dad became Grandfather Stupid. That's usually how they sign themselves in family email threads.
Ray, I have to disagree with you, though -- I think that the OP was deliberately insulting, at least towards me personally. I started out being willing to make allowances for possible external pressures, but eventually I ran out of cheeks. 
(Good one, NIquist!)
Well, I will finally put my toe into this very heated water! With my significant other giving a seminar at a local company on dealing with cultural differences it puts me into the mind set that some of the difficulties in this thread, and others, are due to the language interface, as well as some possible cultural differences. Although I am curious about the sajir insistence, even after being told it wasn't helpful, of using different fonts and colors, but I have encountered that when dealing with the fluctuational polychromatic language of the Elliptoids of Argus. I don't want to loose a new member of the LabVIEW world, or even of this forum as I feel that it is one of the best resources in the LabVIEW "world", but do acknowledge that there are times when some posters, for whatever reason, do not seem to understand that arguing or insulting those that are trying to help them, for free, is not the best path to follow. As to turning the other cheek, four time and you're out ;-). AK2DM, I didn't go through the entire posting you referenced, did I use the "older than dirt" comment in that thread? I have used it numerous times elsewhere, just curious. As I have said, my avatar (not nearly as kewl as the Avatars of the movie of that name!), the trilobyte (sp) was intentionally chosen, as it, as am I, is older than the dinosaurs.
I hope that we haven't lost a budding LabVIEWer, hope that viewing other threads may provide understanding of not only answers to LabVIEW questions but also the protocol and etiquette of the threads. I'm encouraged by the apparently enlightenment of Sajir.
Jeff Bohrer wrote:
Actually, I hope Michelle learned something from that other thread. She asked specific questions, posted some code and received some simple, straightforward answers. If she uses that as an example of an effective post sheshould be able to benefit from further participation in the forums. After seeing that thread I am confused why she dug her heels in in this thread and got so angry. She was basically doing what people were saying here in the other thread and the results were much better.
Ravens Fan wrote:
Read a few pages worth of message threads. If they actually did, and read things before they speak, they may actually find their particular question has already been answered hundreds of times before.
I agree with that and I would like to add that people should use key words in the subject field if they want other members to find the information by doing a search. In the case of this thread, they're is not a single keyword related to the real question (whatever it is!).
Ben
