Chris Barker <cbarker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> moved upon the face of the 'Net and
spake thusly:
>
> Just because there are rude people in the world, we do not all have to tag
> along and be rude, in person or on the Internet (or on the road, sorry to
> all the Italian drivers whose prowess I commented on under my breath). I
> do not believe that Mr Man who asked the question about batteries is any
> the wiser about FAQs since the response mentioned no connection to the
> Olympus FAQs.
I should have mentioned the FAQ.
IMHO, anyone who can find this mailing list can find the FAQ. Most
new members probably come to this list via a web page that lists
both resources.
> (conspiracy theory) are we witnessing the process of natural selection
> being assisted by the old, Net users who want to revert to pre-CERN days
> (allegedly the start of WWW) - all non code-writing hackers to be frozen
> out?
Oh come on, the 'net was never like that. Usenet, BITNET and a
plethora of mailing lists were all well populated by non-hacker types
a decade before the WWW.
There have *always* been people who pop up and ask (to some) trivial
questions---that's why the great tradition of FAQ lists arose.
As I said in one (misinterpreted) message, the OM list is doing much
better than lists like PhotoForum or Photo.net (and way better than
Usenet). In those fora, I'd guess more than half of the threads are
either FAQs, "please think for me", or unanswerable vagueness.
I really hope this list will stay this way (and I concede that polite
suggestions to check the FAQ or archives may be a better way to
achieve it).
cjb.
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