These aren't clients. An analogy: Many in the tech industry are happy to offer advice to random people at the start of their careers. But the onus is on the pe

These aren't clients. An analogy: Many in the tech industry are happy to offer advice to random people at the start of their careers. But the onus is on the person looking for advice to make it convenient for other person. If you received an email that said someone was looking for advice on some tech topic you were familiar with, but in order to see the details of the request and respond you have to create an account and log on to this unfamiliar website, how would you respond? I'd delete it and move on with my life. I'm happy to help, but I'm not a circus animal and I'm not going to jump through hoops for free on behalf of random people that I don't know.