Hi, b(ut)ob(ut)hc, kaushik03!
Good afternoon BA time for you.
Despite the badge of Excel Ninja or Member (not Key Master because we have not been given the AmEx Black yet), I'll speak as a member.
Chandoo's website doesn't support file transfers so uploading or downloading workbooks or other related files is tied to the will of each person.
People may be willing to upload/download a file but perhaps their actual site's firewall policies don't allow them to do that (e.g., Luke M has no access to sharing files website, so he's restricted to read any uploaded file and he can't neither upload the solutions... noted that he always posts the code?).
Other people don't want to post their files so publicly and prefer to send them by mails to certain members. In this case, I think that the decision of each person should be respected and if someone accepts to being emailed a file, he shouldn't upload it too unless the owner lets that.
In my case I actually prefer to answer posts without file transfers involved unless it's harder to write down all formula, procedures and guidelines, or if requesters can't access shared files. If creating a solution workbook for a described problem (no original file), I always upload it publicly, even if I email it due to user's firewall policies. Now if I received a workbook by mail, I wouldn't upload it unless the user asks or allows me to do that.
In this case its will should be respected even the community is deprived of access to the solution, it's up to each one of us to answer or not topics where users sets those constraints. Despite of that I always upload a clean of sensitive data and harmless file if any other member asks something about the solution.
What I personally dislike is actions like directly and firstly asking a user to email the file with the issue instead of asking him/her to upload it firstly, and if disabled then yes enable email path. Regarding this in my beginning here I sent twice or so my email when people asked it to me, but then I changed my mind and ask them to send their emails so as to get back to them: I believe it's more fair posting our email address than requiring other ones. Please read this comment, and the whole topic if you want to:
http://chandoo.org/forums/topic/locking-the-cell-automaticall-once-the-date-passed#post-21903
Regards, British & Bengali guys!
PS: BTW, why do you make write so much?
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