RE: [tlug] characterset in gnus

["Doughty, Michael" <Doughty_Michael@example.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Kearney [mailto:lukek@example.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 6:06 PM
> To: tlug@example.com
> Subject: Re: [tlug] characterset in gnus
> 
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> 
> Mr Turnbull's contribution below seems unnecessarily 
> condescending and would
> not have been missed if he had decided not to send it.
> 

Really?  I thought he was dead on.  There is a culture that
newbies should be aware of.  The people who can be 
classified as "arrogant snobs" are frequently the ones who
have the most knowledge and the lowest barrier for leaving.
It is also their leaving that causes the most harm for others
in the group.  Those that have left tended to provide very
good, short answers.  They could also be extremely abrasive.

The deal is basically that if these people start feeling like 
they can't be relaxed in this forum then they will leave and 
those of us who remain will lose their input.  

What Turnbull was saying, and I think he said it very well, is
that if, in the name of a newbie friendly forum, you make the
old hands uncomfortable, they will leave and everyone will
lose.  So, strap on your asbestos everything and post your
questions.  If someone is unbearably rude, killfile them or 
just ignore them.  

Michael