Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!cognos!timd
From: timd@cognos.UUCP (Tim Dudley)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: comp.graphics
Message-ID: <7841@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 90 15:46:01 GMT
References: <5948@eos.UUCP>
Reply-To: timd@cognos.UUCP (Tim Dudley)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <5948@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes:
 >
 >You guys have to make an effort to conserve your experts.  They
 >represent a precious resource.  Burn them out, and you have no recourse.
 >You have to learn to moderate yourselves.  Take on mentors.  ASK
 >by mail, etc.  It is one thing to step on the toes of a beginner [offense],
 >but another to burn out an expert.   

It'll get worse - the experts will not only stop responding, but stop reading
the group.  Then all the beginners will have no one to talk to but themselves.

I completely agree with this posting.  There's an *enormous* body of published 
knowledge out there.  Do your homework, THEN ask questions.


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