Citizens of the Mandrake Newbie List!
Please... We don't need a argument on who contributed more than everyone
else. While I truly appreciate John's very kind words (thank you!), it must
also be remembered that this is a _community_ list. We are all equals here,
and we should all help each other out. The co-operation of many people have
made the list what it is today: an enjoyable and informative place. Many of
us have similar motivations, but not all of us have the time to answer as
many questions as others (even if they want to). For example, I have been on
university holidays for the past five weeks (it ended today), so I had a lot
of time to answer many questions. Now, with my new semester commencing, I
don't think my input will be quite as high (although I'll certainly try my
best to answer questions).
My gratitude goes out to all list members who have actively participated in
helping users (not just me) with their problems. If there were more of you,
the world would be a much better place to live in :-)
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:53, John Rigby wrote:
Hi Michael and folks,
Oh - this wasn't meant to be a List Of Appreciation, I simply
used these two people as examples.
Of course there is yourself and many others - I didn't mention -even
Roman who is enthusiastically helping in this small but ambitious
project.
In the preface to the Esacape Book I am writing a piece very
pointedly to the effect that without the thousands of good neighbours
out there, the Geeks who patiently helped the non-Geeks through such
simple things as the TCP/IP MANUAL SETUP processes etc., the PC
would still be in Uni's.
I personally go back so far in time that I was one of the earliest
international FIDO Hosts. ( I wasn't a Geek - I supplied the machine,
the phone line and the money to a Geek who used to work all day in my
business and then work all night trying to keep FIDO up. )
It stopped me becoming a manic-depressive cynic as I learned the
ropes of the business world. :-)
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:30, you manipulated electrons to produce:
But we really need both the pros like Civileme and Sridhar who
volunteer their help and the super-users like you.
You are leaving off quite a few people here...I mean there are
people other than civilme and sridhar that do contribute time to
the list. For example, I know I haven't posted as often as those
two, but I've still posted to the list 133 times--not bad
considering some days I get 100-200 e-mails to go through to this
account, let alone my own personal accounts.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
