From: Benjamin R. <b.r...@tu...> - 2009-10-23 23:36:11
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Hi Erwin, > Benjamin Riefenstahl schreef: >> I myself tend to ignore messages that I don't understand within a >> short amount of time. Erwin Waterlander writes: > Then you must have a hard time at work and communicating with friends. I am not talking here about work colleages or friends. In those cases I will usually pick up the phone or just walk over to their office when this happens. I am talking about complete strangers on a mailing list that would like some input from me about a problem they have. I can make an effort and put work into understanding what they might want, more than the effort that they have put into writing the message. But usually I won't. The way I read a mailing list is this: Skim the messages, see what is interesting, skip everything that does not interest me or that I do not immediately understand. I would be very surprised if this is not how a lot of people read a mailing list. > As time passes more newcomers will come with top posts. There is no > way stopping this. I personally don't need to stop anybody. When I find that a mailing list does not contain enough enjoyable content, I will drop it and find some other forum. The internet is a large place and I am sure I will continue to find stuff that is interesting to me for a long time to come. It is different for people that have put effort and their own free time into a project. They are understandably annoyed, when the quality of the mailing list for their project goes down. benny |