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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Stupid Questions
Keywords: big Brothers
Message-ID: <378@wet.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 89 20:51:27 GMT
References: <1356@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <1356@hydra.gatech.EDU> mephdbo@prism.gatech.EDU
	(d. majumder) writes:
>The way things are going our big brothers should probably
>set up a scale of stupidity for humble users like us. If 
>you are at a very large site like this one you spend days if 
>not months trying to find out who the hell are the sysadmins
>and they have more important tasks to handle than responding
>to every damn question form every new user (quite a few of
>them I can tell you). 

This has nothing to do with the size of your site.  It should be
someone's responsibility to field new user questions, and the new
users should figure out who and how within their first week of
employment.  You could even (gasp) ask your supervisor!

About your first comment--which I assume is meant to be
humorous--I was taught that there are four basic classes of
users:

Class I  = novice, Class II = learned enough to get around
comfortably, Class IV = wizard.  Class III?  Those are Class II
users that pretend to be Class IV users (sometimes even believe
they are, or are "sorcerer's apprentice" types--they know enough
to be dangerous).  Class IIIs are frequently seen posting
misinformation to n.n.q., or occupying middle-management
positions.
					-=EPS=-