----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 4:08 AM
Subject: Re: GML traffic -- and more garumuphing
| From: "Bill Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| |
| | I posted that grouchy message this morning. I'll give you a
follow-up.
| |
|
| PS because maybe I'm still grouchy --
|
| ** Please understand your own expertise and mention it if you are a new
| writer to GML or are writing to a new user. Remember that there are new
| gerbils lovers joining GML every week. They don't know that you also
are
| a newbie. to gerbils. In time we get to know each other.
|
| ** Newbies DO pick up on which helpers know their stuff. Unless the
| newbie is dumb enough to think that personality is everything.
| (Personality = saying nice-nice and cultivating "Us vs. Them", prolly
| good use of language in the newbie reader's native tongue, plus some
| public image on GML.)
|
| ** That's also a hint to legitimate GML experts. If your personal
| private email following is based on image and personality, something
| might be wrong. If you are really ego-involved, you are preying on
both
| people and animals. Please don't change your off-List practices --
but
| consider whether your advice is the only advice. And say so.
|
| Another hint to a couple experts: You don't have to be stuffy and write
| formally to express your expertise. Honest. Look at Julian -- who I
| imagine often sits in his underwear amd writes accordingly (*grin*).
|
| ** That does not mean you as a NEWBIE subscriber to GML should not
offer
| your newbie personal experience. We learn a lot from each other. But
you
| might mention, for the even more recent new newbies, how much experience
| your advice is based upon. (Some people recently have been awfully good
| at that when they introduced themselves as "used to keep gerbils and I'm
| now returning.")
|
| ** Please do not post a GML message to an unimportant opinion message
| that says "I think so too." You can practice with this message. I
| welcome PERSONAL email that says how you disagree or agree with me. And
| of course, if you disagree strongly you should says so on GML.
|
| PS -- In my previous message I mentioned some obvious GML experts --
| Julian, Karin, Michelle et al. They are not my ONLY favorites. I've
| learned to assess each posting on its merits. People like them most
often
| make sense to me (and they SAY that they have done research and have
long
| experience).
|
| I have many other favorite experts. Also many favorite Semi-Experts and
| social commentators and pure fun people. I hope you think the same and
| have your own GML favorite writers. It's cool that we don't need to ACT
| on our favorites -- which is different from being in high school. We
| don't have to tell them that they are our favorites, although I suspect
| that thanks to them have got to be appreciated.
|
