[TechAssist] Re: Guy outside the list is asking for a schematic
- From: "Ed Gaidies" <teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:35:47 -0500
Gary;
You told the guy more then he needed to know. And what's this "many of my
fellow group members"...can we not include you in our dilemma..;-)
-Ed-
Tel-Tek Electronics
Ontario-Canada
teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary McCartney" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:52 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Guy outside the list is asking for a schematic
> I have taken into consideration of everyones opinion and I came up with
> an answer for the guy who emailed me wanting a schematic. Below is what
> I told him. Also, opinion is that everyone in the group should stop
> publically mentioning that they are "sending the schematic" or
> "uploading the schematic". This should be done privately only.
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> My reply to the guy:
>
> Hi.
>
> I am sorry but the messages you found are from a private professional
> Technician's email list. The messages are unwillingly searchable on the
> internet. I have asked other group members their opinion on sharing
> information outside the group and a unaminous answer was NOT to share,
> because of the fact that it takes a repair job away from a proffesional
> technician who is having a difficult time earning his living as it is,
> without helping the general public to make their own repairs, or in many
> cases, make the repair even more difficult or even hurt themselves
> attemting to do it. The price of consumer electronics at the retail
> level is declining at such a rapid pace that many of my fellow group
> members may be out of work in the near future. I hope that you can
> understand our situation.
>
> Thanks for inquiring.
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> Gary McCartney
>
> McCartney Electronics
> Guelph Ontario Canada
> Est. 1984
> email: gary (at) number63.ca
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> markbrock wrote:
> >
> > I'm all for helping a guy out, but don't like the idea that more and
more
> > home techs are being born because of the information on the Internet,.
My
> > lawyer friend mentioned that he had a Philips set that the pix kept
going
> > crazy on him, he did a search on the Internet, and it gave him a past
> > history post from one of these repair groups, told what part to change,
> > gave him value, even the name and address of tech who posted the
solution,
> > he got the part from Radio Shack, he fixed his set for less than $5,
I
> > can see that he'll never need my services again, or if he does it will
be a
> > dog set, yea, he clears 100K per year and I'm scraping like the rest,
not
> > near a good of friend as he was. anyone else finding out that more and
more
> > non-techs are getting in the back of there sets ? maybe I'm just
paranoid
> > ? or jealous, to answer your question, If he was within a service
call of
> > my shop I'd be skeptical about training any competition, just my vent
for
> > the day.
> > brock
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gary McCartney" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 8:57 AM
> > Subject: [TechAssist] Guy outside the list is asking for a schematic
> >
> > > I got an email from a guy outside the list who is asking for a
> > > schematic. He said he found me on a Google search and that he works at
a
> > > non profit computer recycling centre where he also gets stuff like
> > > stereo receivers. Is there any problem sharing the schematic with him
> > > (copyright comes to mind- anything else?)
> > > --
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Gary McCartney
> > >
> > > McCartney Electronics
> > > Guelph Ontario Canada
> > > Est. 1984
> > > email: gary (at) number63.ca
> > >
> > >
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