=- Erik Christiansen wrote on Fri 21.Jun'13 at 21:03:32 +1000 -= > It is only desirable to chastise any serial abuser of the list's > patience - a KLB. Your lawyer's response, Rado, lacks practical > merit.
"Serial" is not only limited to a single individual, serial can consist of many different individuals exhibiting the same behaviour, viewing from the receiver side, not sender. The sender changes, the behaviour not. I didn't get the lawyer reference. The practical merit is to provide both: saving time of the help seekers as well as of the providers. > But taking a positive attitude to life, and helping an old bloke > across the road, is not too great a burden for most who are > blessed with a little more youthful energy and memory. (As we have > seen.) Neither consider I the OP here is an abuser, nor that there should be no exceptions. I didn't respond to OP but to the idea to generally open the gates, independent of age or other good reason to spend my time more than any OPs (which I did long ago and sometimes still do). I fully agree that if rtfm is the answer, then a clue where in there should be included. > Our list traffic is not yet unbearable, I submit. I've been to (over)flooded places, where it's hard to get responses for complex requests because they drown in the simple stuff, or to give 'em (hard to notice the rare tough cases, since I don't want to read through each one to find those not resolvable by rtfm). You can wait to see how bad it can be or act before. Been there, done that, don't want it again here. You might have noticed that I did _NOT_ jump on each&every single case of off-topicness or rtfm-level requests, neither here nor IRC. It took me a bit, but I can accept the next generation to spend their energy on those cases rather than mine. ;) Just keeping it all in check. -- © Rado S. -- You must provide YOUR effort for your goal! EVERY effort counts: at least to show your attitude. You're responsible for ALL you do: you get what you give.
