On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Debayan Banerjee <[email protected]> wrote:
Let's start with a basic question (more pertinent since you also have a LUG at your institution). [0] Do you believe and agree with the statement that the communication skills especially those pertaining to doing virtual communications require improvement ? > 1) Rules exist for humans. If *a lot* of people are not comfortable > with the rules, the rules should change, not the human. If you have a list of mails from folks who are uncomfortable with the no HTML mail policy, I'd request that you forward the names to the ListAdmin concerned. Traditionally, HTML mails have caused a lot of misery for folks who use various means to read list mails. For example, think of console based MUAs or, folks who access the list via limited ability devices. > 2) I dont agree that this list exists only for people who have > "something very important to say" so I dont expect someone to move > heaven and earth to ask why he should use Fedora instead of opensuse. Yes, till the time you believe in that you risk having a list that is: - close to GLUG-BOM in vacuum content and stale discussion (with due apologies to the once-fine list) - full of snobs/l33t-whores who tell anyone who has a question 'go google' Real life isn't too different from what you do online. So, if in real life, you don't want to chase an issue down to earth, probably it isn't enough important to you. Face it. That's why we become nags on specific issues. That is, if someone isn't too interested in following up a question on why they should switch to DistroA from DistroB or, whether DistroC is going to meet their requirements - then probably the question wasn't earth-shaking for them. Unless the itch that you have is making your life a living hell, probably you don't have an itch at all. > 3) As people who take decisions on this list it is the list admins > duty to make sure that transferring ideas from ones brains to a list > is made as easy as possible. Let the person move heaven and earth in > making that particular idea better instead of fighting bouncing mails > because of mime type extensions. Sure, a way to fix that is to send out during the initial subscription mail and, the monthly reminders the need to use text-only mails. Expecting folks to read that isn't really expecting too much is it. > 4) This is my last post on this topic. I have made all my points. The > rest is upto the list admins. Hmm... 'last word' is a pretty facile line of argument. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work Sent from: Calcutta WB India. _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss
