I'm sure some KRnet list members wonder why I'm such a jerk about people making useless liittle comments that don't contribute anything toward helping somebody solve a problem, answer a question, or in some way further the body of knowledge of building and flying KRs. Most people get it, some don't. I've explained it a hundred times, but I'll try to make it very simple for those who don't understand. The vast majority of list members get it, but the few that don't make the rest of us miserable.
- If we bog this list down with 50 messages a day that don't mean anything, some of the contributors with the most insight and willingness to help will feel like they're wasting their time here, and will simply unsubscribe from the list, preferring to do something more productive with their time. It's happened before, and when it gets bad, they leave for another year or two, if not forever. - By not deleting all previous posts (except for a sentence or two pertaining to what you are addressing), you bog down the archive, which future members will be sifting through to find some nugget of info they need to get something accomplished. And it might be YOU that finds yourself finding the same messages over and over again, rather than the answer to your question, and wasting YOUR time rather than others. Maybe THAT will make a difference to you, since inconveniencing others doesn't.. I can't ride herd on 750 people, keeping tally on who does what, how many times, but when there's a total disregard for the rules by somebody, I'll go back and look at their previous posts, and if I when I see a pattern of examples of the same sort of disregard, it's all I can do to keep from throwing them off the list immediately...and sometimes I just go ahead and do it. Public humiliation seems to be the only thing that works, and it gets the point across to others (well, SOMETIMES) of what is acceptable and what's not. So that makes me the jerk, but I do what I have to do to keep this list useable. I shouldn't have to do that. I have far better things to do with my time. Hopefully that's "enough said" for a while, but the usual scenario is that it'll only make a difference for 2-3 days, if that long... Mark Langford n5...@hiwaay.net website www.n56ml.com
