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My experience of technical (non-writing) forums is that often the people offering advice in private were doing so because they weren't vastly experienced and didn't have the confidence in their replies to post them in public. They didn't like being openly corrected. I've seen the same thing in writing forums, although not as often. I know some people who offer private advice via email, and I would seriously doubt their credibility. The poor person receiving their advice does so none the wiser.
There may indeed be people who have the experience to provide first-class advice via email. I'm still not clear, though, why most of the time that advice couldn't be given equally as easily in the forum. Some of the time there may be a good reason.
None of the above is aimed at mammamaia, I'm speaking generally. I don't know mammamaia well enough to comment, and she's obviously more experienced than most of us here. Still, it's not as if her opinion never gets challenged in the forums, so maybe the risk remains that she could give poor email advice, albeit with best intentions. On the other hand, maybe her email advice is pure gold.
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rob... please note that i only said i offer 'private
help'... as in one-on-one detailed assistance with a specific piece of work... more than can be provided in a post... and also offered, at times, to some who seem to prefer not to subject their work to public scrutiny... plus, i can send attachments of tips and articles, etc., by email, which i can't do in a post...
and, since i offer advice/info/critiques liberally on the forum daily, it certainly can't be assumed i'm hiding anything, right?...
