[filmscanners] RE: Tiresome Arguments Ad Infinitum

["Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>]

> >Why so many lists want to rehash the same old newbie
> > questions over and over
>
> Maybe - just maybe - because lists like this gets a continual flow of
> newbies - many of whom (a) do not know what took place previously, (b) who
> do not know where to find or how to find archives, and (c) who
> are too lazy
> to do any searching or research, too much in need of an immediate everday
> recipe on how to solve their problem, or too self absorbed in their own
> needs that they forget that what they are asking or saying is not
> new in the
> instutional history or memory of the list.

Hi Laurie,

There is also a difference between newbie questions, and someone who make an
erroneous claim and doggedly (tries to) defend it.  Newbies, typically, know
that they really don't understand...and are willing to listen.

Regards,

Austin

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