At 01:11 AM 11/18/98 -0600, Winship wrote: >On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Dan Lester wrote: >> >> Not to worry....the natives are really pretty friendly here, at least most >> of the time.... > >Whadda ya mean, "most of the time," Dan? We're always friendly, just >somtimes, as you say, abrupt. Doesn't mean we won't spend hours figuring >out a problem for a fellow listowner with a problem. Oh, agree.....just that some thinner skinned folk (which makes you wonder how they're surviving in this business) might take abrupt to be rude or unfriendly. And I guess there are thinner skinned ones....partly because some listowners are about as far from techie as it is possible to be. And that's fine. Just different. I deal with bunches of librarians and library support staff daily, and they're just the same..... o-) cheers dan -- Dan Lester, 3577 East Pecan, Boise, ID 83716-7115 USA 208-383-0165 [log in to unmask] http://www.84.com/ http://www.idaholibraries.org/ http://library.idbsu.edu/ http://cyclops.idbsu.edu/ http://www.lili.org/ Sent me a postcard of a library yet? You'll get something nice in return.