You wrote:
"A couple of questions:
Why do you have a basic mistrust of egroups (now yahoo) and what
jargon would you like to understand?"
Amy
--i'm concerned that services like egroups/yahoo, while performing an
important function in making list management more accessible, continues the
process of draining knowledge away from people who would otherwise be
managing lists more directly. Given the option of working through a large
profit making entity, or directly with the software, I;ll
take the latter. The pirate ship analogy works for me. Re: jargon. I
couldn't name it. i didn't understand it at the time. But i think this was a
more general comment about the accessibilty of this list to new people
(which Nazarok
stated well). As a newcomer, I'll keep you posted. And make it my
responsibility to speak up
when there's clarification that would be helpful for me-as i should have
done at
the time anyway.
and...
"Why so much pessimism about new and unskilled list admins?"
--I'm not pessismistic about the unskilled list adminstrators. I am one. I'm
pessismistic about the fact that people are less likely to learn new skills
(programming, list managing , and non-computer related skills) now than even
just a few years ago. This is my unresearched, non-statisticly supported
opinion (which is likely irrelevant to the function of this list). But I
dare
you to challenge it.
Sarah
