hi all i agree with susan and stuart about ronni's contribution to this forum.
i guess we always want to take the easy way out, but dont forget that ronni has her own life to run, let alone for us on this forum. lets think about it this way: if there wasnt any ronni, what other ways would we go about solving our problems? lets not take ronni for granted, solve our problems ourselves 1st (googling or other resources), before coming here and direct our problems specifically to ronni (or waiting and hope that ronni solves our problems when it could also be easily solved by googling, rather than make ronni do all the work we could do ourselves). regards lynn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Hastings" <susanhasti...@me.com> To: "WAMUG Mailing List" <wamug@wamug.org.au> Sent: Sunday, 17 January, 2010 9:33:25 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject: Re: Give Ronni a break folks...Searching the WAMUG archive Hi, it seems pretty simple to me. Follow the link at the bottom of each WAMUG email, then follow the link on the page. You can then enter your topic (i.e. imovie) and see lots of emails relating to that topic. It does seem that Ronni is often helping people with things they could find in the Help menu of the program they are using, or by doing a google for discussion forums, etc. Her detailed 'how tos' are great and easy to follow, but we can't assume that she always has the time to spare. So, how about it folks, lets take up Mike's challenge to do a bit more of the work ourselves. cheers, Susan. On 17/01/2010, at 9:07 PM, Stuart Breden wrote: > > OK! How then is the best way to search the archives? > > Stuart Breden > PO Box 132 > Kalamunda WA 6926 > Ph: (08) 9257 1577 > Mbl: 0417 053 266 > > > > On 17/01/2010, at 6:05 PM, Mike Murray wrote: > >> >> Dear list >> >> I'm concerned that Ronni's doing too much work (again) on the list. >> >> I'm seeing a lot of detailed one-to-one Q&A sessions that seem to require a >> fair bit of 'have you tried...' that indicate to me that many of the >> enquirers are not searching the archives first or doing some basic googling >> before asking the list the answers to their queries. >> >> Suggestion 1: Ronni, why not wait 24 to 48 hrs before answering? Maybe then >> some of the other knowledgeable folks might start to respond to queries. >> >> Suggestion 2: Everyone...do some homework first; look in the archives, >> google the various mac forums for answers, then come in with the query with >> some indication of what you've tried, what your system configuration is, >> what the specific problem is, etc. >> >> Ronni's too valuable a resource to get overworked! Hate to lose her... >> >> Cheers >> Mike >> >> >> >> Mike Murray and Lesley Silvester >> TimeTrackers >> East Fremantle >> Western Australia >> >> Tel 08 9339 8078 >> Fax 08 9339 0519 >> >> British and Australian genealogical and historical research, >> education, publishing and film-making >> >> www.timetrackers.com.au >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
