RE: Kat Nagel's "Life Cycle of Mailing Lists"

["Foster, Willow" <WFoster -at- friedmancorp -dot- com>]

SteveFJong -at- aol -dot- com wrote:
~> 
~> The way we've treated some of them is just shameful. I
~> still rue being part of a community that gave Amber "the
~> worst four days of her professional life." And, as another
~> one of them recently observed, we don't have time to be 
~> helpful, but there's always one person or another who has 
~> time to add insult to injury.
~> 
~> We undercut the usefulness of the list when we collectively 
~> behave like that.
~> 

I'm sorry if someone walks away from posting here with their feelings hurt,
but my goodness... this is only an e-mail list. If a bunch of unfriendly
e-mails account for the worst four days of your professional life then your
professional life is pretty darn easy! <snipped nasty war stories due to
reappearance of nervous twitch>

A part of being a tech writer is learning to glean information from
blow-hard jerks. How nice to be able to practice here, where they're not in
your face and you can simply hit delete. For that alone, I think this list
is pretty useful. haha... just kidding, I don't find this list very harsh...
want harsh? talk to traditional dog trainers and mention clickers... 

Willow

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