Fri, 3 Feb 1995 09:04:47 EST
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On Fri, 3 Feb 1995 03:28:47 +0100 Eric Thomas said:
>My recommendation will be to pause and consider the psychology of
>technical people. Technical people have an unfortunate tendency to get
>upset when the same person asks the same question more than once in a
>*lifetime*. The same technical people who will completely forget that
>you've been sending them mail for the past 3 days asking about something
>will remember that 2 years ago you asked the very same question and they
>gave you a detailed answer. They'll remember that they bet a pizza that
>you'd ask again within X months and will start arguing about the value of
>X to determine who owes how many pizzas to whom. Needless to say, your
>only chance of getting a second answer is to buy them all a pizza and
>swear it will never happen again. Checking the logs is much more
>convenient :-)
One of the things I learned in this list is to check the logs before I ask
something. So I did. Unfortunately, for both of us, I found nothing.
So I asked this list twice within a 3 week's period.
Despite the sarcastic and ironic content of the above message, do you have
an recommendations? And yes, since I do work as a Part-Time cook at a Greek
and Italian restaurant, I'll offer everybody a free pizza, next time they are
in the area.
BTW, as a technical person myself, I do have the tendency to get upset when
the same posting appears, but I also realize that there are people less
computer/network/listserv illiterate and still try to help. The reason being
that he will insist on asking.
Anything to say?
> Eric
Spiros
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