On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:06:51PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Feb 24, 2006, at 6:31 PM, Frank wrote: > >I was just wondering if you guys think think the emails of Marc Price > >are a breach of politeness etiquette and dimishes the quality of this > >mailing list? Should this person be removed from the mailing list? I > >include his postings below. > > > >Personally, I found that the regulars here to be extremely helpful and > >they don't deserve that kind of crap. > > I don't know Marc personally, but I strongly suspect it's just a > matter of presentation and perception...I don't think the guy actually > intends to be crappy. > > Many people, especially net-newbies, type into an email composition > window without thinking of how things are going to be taken on the > other end. Even after communicating via email for 20+ years, I am > guilty of this myself sometimes...so I can easily envision a > less-net-experienced person (no offense Marc) easily falling into this > trap. > > Personally, while some of his questions are FAQs, I admire the energy > with which he approaches this stuff and I think all of us should do our > best to help him out in any way we can. Today, it seems most young
I am getting tons of this on Ronja - I get rid of them by placing appropriate answer into appropriate place of the guide. It's easy. And I don't need to think about usability. The newbies are thinking for me. I am actually even incompetent in the field of usability and I don't care :) We have one who even regularly behaves like a troll. In this case I do this: 1) if the question makes sense, I answer (or point to FAQ). 2) if the question is syntactically, semantically or otherwise incorrect or doesn't make sense, then I load my brain with the input and find nearest maningful idea to the input that is novel. Then I expand the idea in the e-mail If you don't do these things, the attack on your mailing list will be successful - you will be crapflooded with trivial questions and/or trolling-like questions and SNR will go down. CL< > people go through their lives caring about nothing but Nintendo, "bling > bling", and "reality TV"...and grow up caring about nothing but Bud > Light and NASCAR. Seeing someone approaching something like this with > such enthusiasm is very refreshing and gives me hope for the future. > > -Dave > > -- > Dave McGuire > Cape Coral, FL
