pains of a list user: a political essay

[Carl Summers]

Hi List,
     On my part,  as of late I am extremely busy(good to finally catch up
the bills) and can't keep up with the list.   Lot's of good people here, and
can be very helpful...  Sometimes better to repost a question if it did not
get answered.... I'm guilty of hitting the delete key before reading.... I
get about 100 emails a day without the list.  There's always askme.com
lot's of good people on there too...
-Carl Summers

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-diy_efi at diy-efi.org [mailto:owner-diy_efi at diy-efi.org]On
Behalf Of Jack Doe
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 12:41 AM
To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
Subject: pains of a list user: a political essay


(shaking fist and muttering cuss words)
I use the list very infrequently and have had little
success with it.  My questions must be outside the
realm of the list's rigid mindset.  Before the list
was thoughtfully relocated I used the archive feature
and was very captivated and never had to bother you
people with a single line.  Maybe the list should
become a (take a few breaths and pop some barbituates)
yahoo group or similar, where archives would be
established, preserved and treated with dignity and
most important, be web searchable (read: up to date
and conveniently accessed without massive download
using a dreadfuly common low bandwith connection).  I
know that this is a frequently discused and rage
provoking subject, hence my post.  Traveling backwards
a little, I post questions that might seem a little
mundane, as I have yet to learn microcontroller
assembly language or something similar, I
considerately post these questions because I have a
lot of respect for some of the well established list
members and see them as a source of information that
is, for all intent, otherwise impossible to obtain.
Unfortunately, I find majority of users on these type
of lists (technical) to be routinely unreceptive and
bitter.  Maybe this is a generalization on my part;
more time is spent flaming posts than writing helpful
replies.  I don't think that all of this petty
behavior can be explained as guarding intellectual
property or keeping the list foccused.  My suggestion
to yahoo-ize the list might sound like heresey to some
but it would certainly move information much more
effectively and expose the list a little more (which
is certainly against the backwards anti-agenda of the
list).

ALB


P.S.  I don't read the list much anymore or post at
all.  Just putting my two cents in.  Don't take me too
seriously.  This is just a commical asside in response
to some of the posts and domineering (rude) attitudes
that I've encountered.  I would like to thank a few
people for actually being extremely helpful and
accessible.  I would love to get a few replies.
x2943yz at yahoo.com


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