[Rockhounds] Hendersonville Museum

[Bob Loeffler]

Hi Bryan, et al,

I vote for continuing to educate the public.  As you said, there are still a
lot of newbies on this list and they should be warned every now and then.
You didn't know if Edward was a newbie or not, so it's good to be on the
safe side.  Maybe Edward, Al and a few others should start their own list
for "advanced users", call it RockExperts at drizzle.com (since Rockhounds is
more of a childish name) and make their own rules for what should and
shouldn't be assumed, expressed, and advised.  Then we, on the Rockhounds
list, can go back to having a good time on the list without needing to worry
about what the experts and grizzled veterans might think of our
well-intentioned remarks.

BTW, I've never seen anyone put their full address on a mailing list, and
I've been in the computer industry since the mid 1980's, so I too thought
that Edward was a newbie and assumed he didn't know what he was doing.  Oh
well.  You can't win for trying to help anyone anymore.

Regards,

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com
[mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of J Bryan Kramer
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:13 PM
To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Hendersonville Museum

Well I'll refrain in the future, but not knowing whether someone is a newbie
or a grizzled veteran of the computer wars leaves one wondering how to deal
with situations. It isn't as tho there aren't real people lurking in the
shadows on the net. But Edward sure handled the situation with polite grace,
my hat off to him and let that be a lesson to me.

BK

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Al Balmer <albalmer at copper.net> wrote:

> Although I generally ignore it, I too get tired of the condescending
> assumption that others don't know what they're doing. I can understand
> Edward expressing his irritation. Let's confine such advice to our own
> children, at home.
>