[olug] take this poll

[Dave Burchell]

Daniel Pfile says:
> 
> On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Jeremy Bettis wrote:
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Dave Burchell [mailto:burchell at inebraska.com]
> >>
> >> to the OLUG list with their comments or questions about the tip if
> > they
> >> have any.  In this way, those who subscribe to the tips will act as a
> >> sort of a filter on the tips, only forwarding and commenting on the
> >> interesting ones.
> >
> > Exactly!  And I don't have to put up with getting 100's of useless and
> > often wrong tips for every 1 that is worthy of comment.
> 
> And who's going to do that? The people on the list who can provide 
> comments on the tips probably don't feel like filtering through tips 
> every day and deciding if you're worthy of receiving them and said 
> persons rambling about the tip. I sure don't. I will discuss them on 
> the list though.

[Dave dons fireproof balaclava and checks extinguisher pressure.]

Daniel, if "[t]he people on the list who can provide 
comments on the tips probably don't feel like filtering through tips 
every day" then why on earth should _everyone_ have to filter through the
tips every day like we are _all_ doing _right now_?

Besides, I don't think anyone needs to decide if we're "worthy." (Wayne and
Garth to Alice Cooper: "We're not worthy!  We're not worthy!")  And it
doesn't have to be a good question or insightful comment about the tip.  It
can be any old observation or question.

For the record, I think the tips are kind of cool, and once they quit going
to the OLUG list I may subscribe to the tips list myself.

As for you Jeremy, post your questions about filtering and we'll do our
best to help you out.  We know you are just getting started with Unix,
so we'll be happy to patiently share our vast knowledge with you, and
we'll try to keep our instructions simple without being condescending.
Are you comfortable using WordPad to edit and save files?

[Disclaimer: This is a joke.  JB is a guru.  It's like offering to show
Dennis Ritchie how to define a struct.]

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