Rich Kulawiec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I stand by my statement: I feel those skills are necessary to be
> an effective mailing list manager/owner. Those who lack them are at
> best ineffective, at worst incompetent.
Oh, yeah? Well, I say those who store all their concern and regard
into inhuman techie trunks are like Masters and Johnson stringing
electrodes to bodies in motion; they mistake the manner for the
matter. Any fool replicant can duplicate code mechanics with
Qmail and assimilate gross rote ituitions of sendmail and the
result would be the same had Dr Frankinstein attempted to create
his monster out of stolen rings and watches and eyeglasses,
neglecting the heart and soul.
Such a cyborg sense of a mailing list would figure all was well
no matter the turmoil, anguish, woe and off-topic squealing within
were he to have a good bounce ratio and low intrusion rate to his
list. Leaving out the heart and soul, you could train a reasonably
bright orangutan to make a fine listowner by that criteria.
Ahh, but the listowner for me is one who does not become
distracted by the pure mechanics of his toys but instead
relishes the topic and the humans who bring it to life.
Without that heart and mind, a list is but a tinkling symbol,
a wind-up toy, rendering whizz and flash and smoke and
mirrors, signifying nothing.
To answer your reflex question, yep, NerdNosh has all
components, thank you very much. I worry about heartbeat
and soul substance, and allow an excellent engineer to
keep the wires humming.
For you old hands, substitute Kinsey up there for Masters and
Johnson, and `gamma minus machine minder' for orangutan.
Ain't this fun?
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