Re: FN-FORUM: OT: Your help is desperately needed

date posted 12th February 2008 11:09

On 12/02/2008 12:01, Steven Lavine wrote:
> What a lovely world we live in. No wonder there is so much strife. No
> bugger trusts each other. Ok so I may of made a few mistakes in
> registering the domain, or by using paypal, who hasn't? If I offended
> anybody with my post, then sorry. You've may not experienced the shock
> and stress involved with cancer (neither had I until now). I love my
> mother-in-law to bits (as strange as that sounds :) ), and as she is on
> a low income (She is a school teacher in Slovakia), she needs some help.
> As I am not financially well off and can not afford to help as much as I
> would like to I decided to send the original email to ask my peers for
> assistance, I see no problem with this as If I was able to help another
> member of this forum, I would.
>
> It is easy to jump to conclusions, I know, but why would I try to scam a
> forum that I actively partake in? If you do not wish to contribute,
> don't I'm not forcing anyone, not do I expect anything. I was just
> putting it out to people on the off-chance that someone could help.
> There is a saying that I learnt the hard way. "If you don't ask, you
> don't get"..
>
> Steve
>

Unfortunately that's the way things have come especially with the
Internet, it's certainly changed a lot since I first came online many
many many many many years ago.

Unfortunately my advice that I gave earlier probably won't be as
applicable due to her living in a different country, but it's certainly
worth a chance contacting the people I mentioned for yourself, you never
know, and as you said, if you don't ask...

Martin