When these people ran up against a technical problem, to which they'd have to turn to someone else for an answer, they'd e-mail and get an answer right away, because they built up a network of people before they needed them.
当这些人遇到必须向他人求助的技术难题时,他们会发邮件并且能马上拿到答案,因为他们在需要帮助之前就已经建立了一个人情网。