From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28584 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: A New Year's Resolution Date: 05 Jan 2000 11:05:28 -0800 Organization: U.C.Davis, Information Technology - D.C.A.S. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <200001031934.OAA13287@wmperry.bp.aventail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165407 30631 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:56:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:56:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu, ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25D4ED051E for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:07:50 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAB15455; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 13:07:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 05 Jan 2000 13:07:25 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA13239 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 13:07:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from wanderer.dcn.davis.ca.us (wanderer.dcn.davis.ca.us [168.150.190.2]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE66D051E for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:05:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from hardaker@localhost) by wanderer.dcn.davis.ca.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA02017; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:05:28 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: wanderer.dcn.davis.ca.us: hardaker set sender to Wes Hardaker using -f Original-To: wmperry@aventail.com X-URL: http://dcas.ucdavis.edu/~hardaker X-Face: #qW^}a%m*T^{A:Cp}$R\"38+d}41-Z}uU8,r%F#c#s:~Nzp0G9](s?,K49KJ]s"*7gvRgA SrAvQc4@/}L7Qc=w{)]ACO\R{LF@S{pXfojjjGg6c;q6{~C}CxC^^&~(F]`1W)%9j/iS/ IM",B1M.?{w8ckLTYD'`|kTr\i\cgY)P4 In-Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com's message of "Mon, 3 Jan 2000 14:34:31 -0500" Original-Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.08 (Gnus v5.8.0) XEmacs/21.2 (Shinjuku) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28584 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28584 >>>>> On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 14:34:31 -0500, wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) said: >> Is it worth the effort to respond when some of them are that old? >> They have certainly either solved the problem, discussion, or >> simply dropped it without my help at this point... William> Some have, some haven't. I always play it safe and try to William> answer everything. I will usually fire off a quick 'im in William> email overload right now, but you are #9622 in line, you will William> be serviced eventually'. :) Yeah, and hence the reason I have so many messages in my mail folders... Those times when I was away. Or busy. Or writing code. One other suggestion that hasn't been mentioned yet: create a mailing list. My snmp package has 2 important ones. One for users, and one for coders. Then I deleted all references to my personal email address out of the documentation and left only the reference to the coders list, saying "write there with questions and someone will help you". The idea was that if more people wrote the mailing list they would cross-help each other more. It sort of worked. The 209 people on the coders list occasionally help the people that write in. Ok, about 5 of the 209 actually do. But the good news is that they answered about 25% of the messages, leaving me with less of a load. That percentage has grown lately and is probably near 50%. Actually, giving write access to the CVS repository is what made the second jump in number. Involve them more and they will help more! But you're right, I think always answering is the polite way to go... -- "Ninjas aren't dangerous. They're more afraid of you than you are of them."