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It strikes me that the key-word in the subject line is 'lurkers'. I would approach a question from someone who posts regularly and who I feel I 'know' with a modicom of sympathy and would probably be quite keen to help them out. I would approach quite differently a question from a lurker, whose name I didn't recognise, who I didn't feel I knew, and whose actions were broadly similar to someone who sticks his neck around the door at a postgraduate meeting and says: "Hey, you guys are all doctors. Anyone care to look at the funny spot on my forearm?" My solution: if you want free medical advice, hang about, don't lurk, chip in to the discussions, make yourself known, then ask the question, as long as it's not anything to do with feeling tired all the time. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%