[TechAssist] Re: Guy outside the list is asking for a schematic

Gary,
I think I will draft your letter, and send it to the next "outside the list"
guy that bothers me about repair problems. I suggest that everybody on this
list does the same. That's if you don't mind. It'a a very good answer. IMHO.

LLW

LeRoy Westlund
Westlund TV & Electronics
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gary McCartney
To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:55 AM
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:
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>Hi.
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>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.
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>Thanks for inquiring.
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>Gary McCartney
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>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?)
>> > --
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>> > Gary McCartney
>> >
>> > McCartney Electronics
>> > Guelph Ontario Canada
>> > Est. 1984
>> > email: gary (at) number63.ca
>> >
>> >
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