[ale] Newbee needing help #6

[Bruce Jones]

Not Jim,

Let me share my reasoning, I currently manage over 100 open discussions on 21 different Discussion Boards in my classes, it has been my experience that if you ask three questions in the same e-mail, the last one gets replied to, the others are skipped, seems to be human nature. I intentionally flagged my posts here "Nubee" so members of this group, who don't want to deal with new users, could ignore me if they chose. I will spread my questions out in the future, thanks for the suggestion.

Bruce

-----Original Message-----
>From: James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 18, 2006 3:47 PM
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: Re: [ale] Newbee needing help #6
>
>I will use your email to reply to everyone that thinks I was out of line.
>
>In my opinion, it would have been better for the poster to gather up
>all his questions into one well written email. Putting each question
>into its own individual email gets very annoying for those of us who
>may not be interested in answering the questions.
>
>I think I waited long enough to make my issue known. I didn't send my
>bitch on the third, fourth, or event he fifth email. When it hit six
>straight emails is when I decided to voice my problem with the way the
>questions are/were being asked. I'll agree that I wasn't very kind, or
>even clear, in the way I voiced it.
>
>As for the off topic posts. At least they are one subject per thread.
>This is the same box with all the problems. To me, that means one
>thread not six.
>
>(And my name is not Jim.)
>
>On 7/18/06, Dan Lambert <danlambert at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 14:47 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
>> > Would you mind not spamming the list every half hour?
>> >
>>
>> Jim, I don't know what got in your craw, but I would certainly be a bit
>> more entertaining of someone new trying to gather enough information to
>> make their system work. He is, after all, trying to bring up a linux
>> system, and this is a linux enthusiasts list.
>>
>> I've seen a whole lot less on-topic conversations carried on for days
>> here, and no one started squawking about that for the first few days at
>> least. I think we can be a little more patient with a new guy that that.
>>
>> Dan
>>
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>
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>pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
>is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
>drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
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