On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 21:19:39 PM -0500, James Knott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I've just looked at posts by myself and Marco. To date, I've posted > almost 2500 messages (only 3 or 4 others have posted more) in this > forum, the vast majority offering help to users. He's posted about > 190 and it looks like about 1/3 of them are telling people how to > behave on this list. Makes one wonder. What makes *me* wonder is the fact that you feel good and are *proud* of having wasted so much of your time to pollute the archives and people's inboxes with hundreds of messages that take so much to scan and won't be indexed properly, something which increases both the amount of uneffective online searches and the amount of repeated questions here. Try to calculate, instead, the _effectiveness_ of support, that is the ratio between the time one spends answering on this list and the amount of actually useful (=found quickly through online searches, minimizes the amount of future duplicate questions, etc...) information he or she produces. If you scan the archives you'll also find that most of the answers come exactly from people who like to "work harder, not smarter". The others (cfr what I wrote about Byfield, Haugland, Weber, plus many others almost equally competent who don't come back after seeing what passes for "support" here) have always left. Marco -- Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you: http://digifreedom.net/node/84 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
