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Yo Adriaan, after a month or so on any list just set up a filter that dumps stuff you dont want to read in the trash automatically -- -most any decent email program can do that. This way you never have to read the drivel and crap you dont want .... At 07:53 PM 11/23/1998 +0100, Adriaan_Haine@ce*.be* wrote: > >True, but I was talking about the lurkers in the shadow that jump on the >list solely to discredit some other person who makes a (valid) point, not >because they (the lurkers) have anything interesting to say, but just for >the sake of damaging the person who makes the (valid) point (look at the >flak Jim Cobb gets from Bill Bott every time he makes a point and, dare I >say it , vice versa). There is a lot of 'personal warfare' going on here, >sometimes its amusing, but most of the time it is demeaning and unworthy to >be put on public display. >Look also what happens every time the word 'OMS wings' comes up. OMS are >making wings without bungees now, that is a start in the right direction, >maybe they did learn something by listening to the opinions about their >bungeed contraptions...and looked at their chequebooks getting thinner... >;-). > Also, when you look at the effort George Irvine makes to get his point >across, I wonder if he never gets tired of it and says 'What the hell, I'm >out of here, let them all do what they want, and if they kill >themselves...so be it'. > But I believe that behind all that bravour and bigmouthing, George >actually CARES for the sport and the people that are in it, otherwise I do >not think he would bother doing what he does, i.e. defending his >viewpoints ad infinitum and getting nothing in return but hatemail . I >think if he ever decides to call it quits and leave the mailings lists, we >would all lose! > >I fully agree that for the newbie tech divers, this list is valid, and they >should ask and get the answers they deserve, . without receiving any flak >(or not too much, anyway). Perhaps first consulting the archives wouldn't >hurt. >It's just that most people are scared off of this list after the first >post they make, if they're not careful, and that's not a good attitude. >Some people can stand the flak, some cannot. > > >rgrds > > >Adri Haine > > >-------------------- > > > > > > > > > >wrote: > > >Yo Adriann, >you wrote <<<I for one am getting very tired from always seeing the same >questions and opinions being posed and formed on this techdiver list. >> >The internet is not a stagnant medium. It is fluid. The momentum of the >fluid drags in little things along the shore .... we call them list >participants. WE get lots of new people coming in and out --- the same >question will and needs to pop up now and then --- repetition is not bad, >it breeds good habits. And if we have to discuss bottle id's 10 times a >month well then so be it. We may just save one more. >Enjoy. > >Joel Silverstein >Scuba Training + Travel Co. >http://www.NitroxDiver.com > > > > > > Joel Silverstein Scuba Training + Travel Co. http://www.NitroxDiver.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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