Sure it was nice of serfty to do. When I direct people to the rules I provide the answer as well as a link as opposed to saying I am just too lazy to look them up. When I tell people about their question having been asked and answered before, I provide a link to what search reveals, the actual threads that answer their question, as opposed to jsut telling them to do a search.

All in all giving someone a cite to where they can find the answer will often in the long run be more helpful both to that person and to the next person that happens to read that thread and wants to know how much it is start from Brazil. My own feeling was that this person had access to excel, opened the fare tool and then wasn't going to bothered to use the tool. Similarly a person on the AA forum quite awhile back wanted some info from EF, I provided it along with a link to EF and mentioned how they might want to join. The person replied they were a member of EF but just couldn't be bothered with logging on and figured they could get someone else to do it for them - not that there was some reason they couldn't log in - slow dial up connection or anything - just wanted someone else to do it for them.