RE: Should we do moderation on this mailinglist??

[Swart, James (Jim) ** CTR **]

touche!

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Layman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Should we do moderation on this mailinglist??



        Then most people have bad expectations of this mailing list.  Many
responses don't come for at least a half an hour (many not until a few hours
later).  Going to the Jakarta site, clicking on the link for the archive,
and then performing a search takes a few minutes at most (even with the
really slow archive servers).  For most people, reading/scanning/searching
the manual and searching the archives would be faster than posting a
message, going to the coffee pot for a 30 minute break and then asking their
question again.

        Randy


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Swart, James (Jim) ** CTR ** [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:32 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Should we do moderation on this mailinglist??
> 
> 
> yes.  I used to be like that ("It all boils down to there are a lot of
> people out there, you know who you are;), who are just plain 
> lazy and want
> to be given their answerand don't want to search for 
> themselves. ").  Until
> my best-friend Manuka always told me "go read this book or 
> look at that web
> site".  After a while, I just would go find out first and ask 
> second.  Most
> of us ask first not because we are lazy, but because we are 
> in a hurry (in
> my opinion).
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Wentzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:51 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Should we do moderation on this mailinglist??
> 
> 
> > FYI: I just sent a message to 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
> > suggest that such a footer be added.  We'll see what happens.
> 
> JMHO, but back in the good 'ole dayz there was a footer and I haven't
> seen any perceivable volume increase on the list since it was removed.
> 
> It all boils down to there are a lot of people out there, you know who
> you are;), who are just plain lazy and want to be given their answer
> and don't want to search for themselves.  Whether it be a 3 line msg
> footer or an 8*{ {0 -1}, 
>                  {1  0} } message archive;).
> 
> 
> ---
> Michael Wentzel
> Software Developer
> Software As We Think - http://www.aswethink.com
>