On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:00:35 -0700 (MST) Robert Holtzman increased personal carbon footprint by exciting electrons the world over with these memorable words:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Michael Adams wrote: > > > Given the rest of this thread i wonder if advising users to > > subscribe, especially those with a one-off question is advisable. > > 90%+ of new users simply want their question answered so they can > > continue with their work. Then they trundle off and are happy. > > > > The ones that subscribe should be those of us experienced enough to > > offer help to others on an ongoing basis. I do see relevance for a > > power word processor user to be subscribed, but again less than 10% > > of us are that. > > Without new users subscribing, who are the experienced ones going to > help? Ultimately the newbies that are getting the help now will become > experienced enough to need only an occasional hand. > 80% of business users, do not use more than 20% of the functionality of a full word processor. Styles are only utilised if the organisation supplies templates. Tables of contents and other indexes are not used unless you are a professional writer. Similarly most users of spreadsheets tend to be users rather than designers, with macros being for the sadistic few ;) Home users tend to be less experienced on the whole than business users. We have a core of (overworked) usefull participants on this list whose answers do tend to be relevant. I participate because i work with the elderly and disabled as a tutor in computers. There questions tend to come in at an order of magnitude less than what some others can answer, but their numbers are relevant. So while not being able to help on complex database questions i can occasionally help to answer the mundane dross, so others can get on with their hard work. I'm really saying eighty to ninety percent or more of questioners may never aspire to, or having an interest in answering others questions. Asking them to subcribe to the list only freaks them out and causes a negative reaction when they start getting innundated with our medium volume list traffic. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
