Hello All, I have been lurking a bit on this List. I am one of the new, impressionable minds. I subscribed to this and the regular biofuels list at Journey to Forever. I am not sure that I made the right decision.
I also subscribe to another List on a totally different topic. That List and all of it's subscribers seem very professional, helpful and actually work together. I am getting the impression that things are quite a bit different here. This seems like a place for tempers to flare, egos to puff, differences of opinion to collide. I had actually hoped to learn something useful by subscribing. Is there a Charter of rules that govern your List? I am used to seeing folks Post messages in only plain text, no HTML, colored fonts, Italics, underlining, etc.. My computer is perfectly capable of decoding HTML, but I wonder if there are folks out in the audience who have problems reading in HTML? I personally find Italics and especially underlined Italics annoyingly difficult to look at. (no personal attack intended) I can understand that in order to develop any new technology, many different things must be attempted and experimented with. I hope that for the sake of the world advancing in Biofuels that folks could be considerate of others, help each other, work together, cooperate and get some sort of results that prove positive. I don't expect the List to change just for me or anyone else. I just hope to give the folks on the List an impression from a new subscribers' point of view. Are my impressions the ones that you want people to have? I'll continue subscribing to see if I can possibly make anything out of the info. Regards and cheers to All, Rick Pryor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 1:48 AM Subject: Re: [biofuels-biz] wish i had more time... > I'm also short of time, Dick, very, and I certainly have many better > things to do, but a lot of the stuff you post is so wrong-headed that > I feel it has to be countered. Such ideas, if you can call them that, > as that there's no need for standards and that WVO is a waste of time > can do the whole biofuels movement a lot of damage; novices are > impressionable, and also this stuff gets into the archives, waiting > to be found by users of search engines such as Google, by people who > aren't even list members - little time-bombs, ticking away. So I > counter it, but nothing is achieved, nothing is taken forward - just > returned from a negative value hopefully to zero, back where we were > before we started. It's an entire waste of time and effort. I don't > care about your clever little jibes and snide remarks, but I find > your patronising pontifications a worthless pain in the neck. > > We've been regailed about what your engineering course taught you. > Here's what my journalism teacher taught me, amongst many other > things (yes, I know you think you're a journalist too): "When you're > ready to write your story, sit down, put some paper in the typewriter > - and stop. Ask yourself, 'Why am I writing this story?' If you can't > find a good reason, don't write it." > > The lengthy discussion to define "good reason", as well as "bad > reason", was MOST illuminating. It lasted six months, and indeed > still continues, 35 years later. > > I recommend this advice to you. Ask yourself that question next time > you're about to write to the group: 'Why am I writing this? Will it > make a genuine, positive, contribution, or not?' Nobody likes a > smart-ass, and for good reason. > > Good day. > > Keith Addison > > >if i did, keith, i would attempt to answer your questions. > > > >in lieu of this, let me just say that i appreciate your comments > >tremendously, and will certainly factor them into my life-focus from > >now on. > > > >your input made my day. thank you. > > > >all the best. cheers, dick. > > > > > > Biofuels at Journey to Forever > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > Biofuel at WebConX > http://www.webconx.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Small business owners... Tell us what you think! http://us.click.yahoo.com/vO1FAB/txzCAA/ySSFAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
