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From: mark@drd.UUCP (Mark Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X Novice Proposal
Keywords: efficiently handling novices
Message-ID: <279@drd.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 88 13:18:17 GMT
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Reply-To: mark@drd.UUCP (Mark Lawrence)
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bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) wrote:
%% ...
%% With free software and free advice, you get what you pay for.  While
%% there will hopefully always be free software and advice available,
%% this sort of personalized volunteer mentoring arrangement you describe
%% would require a larger commitment of time, effort, and responsibility
%% than most of us casual news readers-and-repliers are ready or able to
%% provide.  Our employers expect us to provide our expertise to them,
%% and only incidentally (if at all) to the rest of the world.
%% <and so on>

I meant to address two goals:

	1.  Coming up with a means for _occasionally_ obtaining answers 
	from someone who understands the 'bigger scheme' of things without 
	having to parade my ignorance before the whole net.

	2.	Creating a scheme that helps keep the newsgroup free of such
	clutter from others like me who are bound to join.

Of course, the first point is most important to me *now* :-).  I
acknowledge the truth of Bob's first statement and echo the sentiments of
the last statement.  However, we participate in USENET out of a fundamental 
interest in the free exchange of ideas, knowledge and what-have-you, and
since I'm writing this and you're reading this, I suggest that there is a 
common good to be derived by addressing the issue.  

I'd thought also about a comp.windows.x.questions or .d type of
newsgroup modeled after comp.unix.questions, but I am loathe to propose
YANG (yet another newsgroup).  I'm curious as to whether anybody else
shares these concerns.  I'll admit that I'm all for 'free lunches' (who
on the receiving end of such deals isn't), but that there are other
reasons to consider the issue.

			Mark

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