>On 7/26/02 7:00 PM Jeff Szuhay edified us all by writing: > >>3) re-hashes of a topic primarily because poster hasn't >> bother to follow entire thread and thinks their new >> post (noise) is somehow original when it isn't. >> >For this one, there will (IMHO) always be someone coming in just a few >posts after a topic has been addressed in the thread. If you stay with >any list long enough, you will experience someone asking the same (or a >similar) question as earlier. What I try to do is just accept that some >people may not have (or keep) the earlier posts like I do, and I do a >search for that topic info and repost it (or just send it to the person >off-list). "We're Mac users; we tend to help each other out" (my opinion, >drawn in part on the familiar phrase, "It's a Macintosh; it's *supposed* >to be fun"). > >No comment on the first two. Nuff said... > >The guidelines sound good to me, also.
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