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?!?! You consider PLUG a low volume list!!!
Man, I only have about a half dozen or so of these lists (Truly active ones
anyway) and this one tops the volume scale at almost 3X the next in line, and
sometimes I still find myself reading 1000 emails a day!
How do you do it ;)
Oh wait, I use pine on a remote Solaris server... is it on topic again ;)
<BTW this was intended to be humorous ;>
Quoting Technomage <
technomage-hawke@cox.net>:
> On Thursday 31 March 2005 19:30, Craig White wrote:
> > It has been suggested on another thread that the tone of some of my
> > messages might 'be a bit kinder'
>
> I heard that as well.
>
> >
> > I tend to give answers, when I can, suitable for the level of the
> person
> > asking the questions and thus the answers can be somewhat abrupt when
> I
> > expect that the person who asked the question can understand what I
> am
> > saying. Obviously an answer to a 'newbie' to Linux has to be done on
> an
> > entirely different manner, more attention to the exact details and
> > somewhat different in tone.
>
> agreed. I can tell you (and others here) I do not make the best teacher
>
> myself. I have a short fuse and little tolerance for those not capable
> of
> learning at "my level". Still, I do try to be patient (I have to
> remember, I
> was a newbie once my self :) ).
>
> >
> > Thus, when Nathan - a long time PLUG'er and long time and
> knowledgable
> > Linux user asks a question, my answers are going to be short, as
> > specific as necessary and include most of my concerns about why I am
> > thinking that it is likely to be a bad idea that he go down that
> path.
>
> saw that. saw nothing wrong with how it was handled.
>
> >
> > When Mike Enriquez asked about how to make 3 different sound cards
> work,
> > I gave him a longer, more explained version of how I would handle it
> and
> > he went out and bought a new card anyway ;-) Surely my tone on
> that
> > exchange couldn't be questioned (or can it?) Needless to say, my
> advice
> > with that new card isn't going to change.
>
> hmmmmmmm. I think I chimed in here as well. Sometimes though, it is
> easier to
> let folks learn from their own mistakes, even if it makes the rest of us
> look
> elitist (it was written somewhere that mistakes are often far more
> instructive that successes). Still, questions will get asked and we
> should,
> at the very least, attempt to be helpful. sometimes our avice gets taken
> and
> sometimes it doesn't. thats just the way it is.
>
> >
> > I have now looked back on the messages that I have posted during the
> > month of March and the only thing that I think someone could have
> > possibly objected to was my desire not to have the list spammed with
> > GMail invite offers - if that was an effrontery on the successful
> > commerce on this list (or any other), please let me know.
>
> well, gmail invites aside, the other "commerce" on this list (such as
> job
> postings and the like) I find to be rather informative. This list is
> only 1
> of 25 or so I subscribe to, and given its low traffic volume, I dont
> mind the
> occassional "off-topic" dicussions. it is rather nice to see so many
> conversing sometimes without the restrictions you find in so many other
>
> places. just reference linux in there somewhere and its pretty much
> on-topic. :)
>
> now. about that sound card..........
> :)
> Technomage Hawke
>
>
> >
> > Craig
> >
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