Re: [OT]Re: help with my String

["Dean H. Saxe" <dean@fullfrontalnerdity.com>]

At 10:26 AM 10/5/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I have had similar experiences on other Java User Groups.  Just because I
>asked about something as simple as a JarInputStream, I was talked down to.
>I received replies ranging from, "How can you not understand them?" to "Why
>did you post this and make us waste our time reading it?"
>
>Most of the time there are some genuinely helpful people out there who don't
>mind to explain something basic.
>
>I agree with Ms. Jeness, if you feel a question is beneath you---ignore it.
>Sorry for the rant.  I just wanted to share my experience.

Jason,

I totally agree with you.  As is the case on every mailing list there will 
always be a variety of experience levels from novice to expert.  I have 
been extremely active in the Atlanta ColdFusion User Group lists for the 
past few years, its been very helpful to increase my own knowledge as well 
as for helping other resolve there problems.  Its my sincere hope that this 
list will serve the same purpose for all its members, regardless of their 
levels of experience.

On that note, does anyone here have experience with the javax.imageio 
classes for image manipulation?  Specifically I am looking for information 
relating to resizing GIF/JPEG images to automagically make thumbnails for 
the web.

-dhs