pains of a list user: a political essay

[Warwick Anderson]

So some Qs don't get a reply?  the one that do sure make up for the ones
that don't I feel.
don't like it?
Start your own. and invite only the people you want on it.

stop whining and fix the problem, that's a better solution
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Doe" <x2943yz at yahoo.com>
To: <diy_efi at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 5:41 PM
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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