I'm happy to take the credit!
Stuart Breden
PO Box 132
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On 17/01/2010, at 10:44 PM, lynn...@westnet.com.au wrote:
sorry, should be susan and mike...
sorry mike.
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From: lynn...@westnet.com.au
To: "WAMUG Mailing List" <wamug@wamug.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, 17 January, 2010 10:42:31 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing /
Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi
Subject: Re: Give Ronni a break folks...Searching the WAMUG archive
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
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