AVR-Chat

> ... limited to professionals and qualified hobbyists. Does that mean 
an on-line quiz you have to pass to join?

I believe most here and those on similar groups truly enjoy 
spontaneously helping others when they can.  Those who don't, just lurk 
and are rarely heard and are not a problem even if they know nothing and 
couldn't tell others the time of day.

The experience offered is free to take - but not to demand on a 
timeline.  A short post-preventing delay for new members might have some 
merit - not a month, but maybe two or three days - and could serve to 
prevent immediate demands by those who need a comprehensive dissertation 
in thesis form by 15:30 next Friday.  That could be circumvented by 
forethought, but the few offenders don't seem to exhibit such acuity.  
And it really doesn't happen all that often, but it is annoying when it 
does, and pushes over the edge some who would otherwise be politely 
silent - to pound out a brief flame of appreciation. 

Tom