[filmscanners] RE: Tiresome Arguments Ad Infinitum

["Laurie Solomon" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

Yes, of course what you say does happen; but I respectfully submit that it
is not really responsive to the question I quoted and attempted to respond
to.  It responds to a very different question or issue.  I was attempting to
resond to way the same old NEWBIE qustions come up and are rehashed and why
often non-newbie questions keep coming up and get rehashed and/or belabored.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Austin Franklin
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 2:08 PM
> To: laurie@advancenet.net
> Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Tiresome Arguments Ad Infinitum
>
>
> > >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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