Re: signal-to-noise and contribute-to-gripe ratios

[John Cunningham <johnc@together.net>]

hmmm, ok but you just added to the negative bandwidth, right?

"R. W. Zehr" wrote:

> When people start complaining because "OK, I've sent this to the list
> twice now and gotten exactly 0 (that's right, 0.0 for you turbo folks!)
> responses!!!!!!", we seem to be in the "I'm entitled" mode that boils my

IMHO, there's nothing wrong with a repost mentioning that you haven't gotten
an answer yet.  you never know if someone has had off-list answers unless
this happens.  it's just the way that an unstructured cooperative group has
to work.  his plea brought attention to the fact that he still had the
problem, and he got a bunch of (hopefully) helpful replies...  let's not be
too touchy...