Re: [Thinkpad] List Scope (and "Seniority)

I think I'm a b if not a c
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randal Whittle" <rwhittle@usa.net>
To: "TP List" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] List Scope (and "Seniority)

> Here's a question for all--if you want to take a poll:
>
> How many list members have been subscribed to this list for at least:
>
> a) 2 Years
> b) 5 Years
> c) 7 Years
> d) Since the inception of this mailing list (nearly 10 years)
>
> Now my answer is "D", and the list archives will prove it. Its been quite
> a while since I was a young college kid with my first Thinkpad and
actively
> participating on the mailing list, but its also been a fabulously useful
10
> years of having it as a resource.
>
> I think one of the reasons this list has stuck around so long, and so many
> of us have *still* continued to subscribe to it, is because of the high
> quality of technical knowledge we all share with one another, and the
> tolerance we've had in allowing that kind of knowledge to be shared, even
> when it didn't always fit with "ThinkPad" in the discussion. Most of the
> time it was still related in some way, as people were usually reasonable.
>
> Now I've seen it get off-track more than a few times, but it has rarely
> ever been "awful", and I still know how to scan subject lines and use my
> delete key.
>
> Is that too much to ask?
>
> - Randy Whittle
>
>
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