Genealogy Chat

Like you all I've experience the non-repliers but have mostly had very polite replies from people I've mailed. Incidently, one very odd but not rude thing that happened.......... I'd a request a good few weeks ago to view my tree. This persons name did not show up under my contacts so I PM'd them asking them to reply to that, thinking they would then be in my contacts....Nope! Anybody got any clues to whats went on here? I always thank people for taking the time to reply to a PM. Good manners cost nothing. Those automated replies are so abrasive and I get quite miffed when I recieve one, they would beas well saying 'Get stuffed'. It may indeed not be their relative but they do not need to be rude about it. After all, if they had PM'd me, I more than likely would have tried to help even though it wasn't one of mine. Like Ann I do not understand why people have joined this particular website if they do not wish to participate/share/help. Isn't that the point? I suppose some people are just proverbial takers but they'll get sussed pretty quickly on here. The GR Community is only as good as the people who use it - thankfully the majority are still worth their weight in gold. Jan