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Consider your roots.
A little more tolerance for newbies, please!

We are here; so is utility.
When we tire, we will act
expeditiously and without malice.

Delete, delete, delete...Empty Trash.

Among others,
I read your posts,

I learn,
mostly I enjoy.

You're fighting the good fight!
Gotta luva teacher.

On 7 Dec 99, at 20:38, Bob Clements wrote:

> Consider your roots.
> A little more tolerance for newbies, please!

Bob, two points. This isn't newbies just on computers or on the
internet. Many people don't know how to behave on the net, and
never will, quite frankly because they have no desire than to use it
as an appliance.

Second, I tolerate it, since there is little choice. But I wager a
guess that if a) the behavior on this list were a bit more adept,
and/or b) there was some level of moderation you find many more
participants sharing more.


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Robert,

Upon reflection, I agree that newbies was a misdiagnosis.

I like the appliance metaphor. Maybe what is needed, as a start, is a
large OFF button. In another listserv, instructions for signing off are
part of the signature block added to every post by the server. Two lines
save a lot of grief.

I would propose a similar message, but in the header for this forum.

Bob.



Robert Bacal wrote:
>
> On 7 Dec 99, at 20:38, Bob Clements wrote:
>
> > Consider your roots.
> > A little more tolerance for newbies, please!
>
> Bob, two points. This isn't newbies just on computers or on the
> internet. Many people don't know how to behave on the net, and
> never will, quite frankly because they have no desire than to use it
> as an appliance.
>
> Second, I tolerate it, since there is little choice. But I wager a
> guess that if a) the behavior on this list were a bit more adept,
> and/or b) there was some level of moderation you find many more
> participants sharing more.
>
> Bookmark the search for anything page - websites, email addresses, books,newsgroups, lists.
> http://www.escape.ca/~rbacal/search.htm

>Believe it or not but that wouldn't help a whole lot.

I believe you.
So many professors.
Such a sadness.

On 8 Dec 99, at 15:51, Bob Clements wrote:

> Robert,
>
> Upon reflection, I agree that newbies was a misdiagnosis.
>
> I like the appliance metaphor. Maybe what is needed, as a start, is a
> large OFF button. In another listserv, instructions for signing off are
> part of the signature block added to every post by the server. Two lines
> save a lot of grief.
>
> I would propose a similar message, but in the header for this forum.

Believe it or not but that wouldn't help a whole lot. On most of the
lists I run, there is a link at the top and instructions for
unsubscribing at the bottom, and guess what? I get quite a few
unsubscribe messages sent to the wrong address. The only
solution is to have a moderated list to avoid this kind of problem.


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