On 3/1/2012 4:17 AM, Charani wrote: > Darrell A. Martin wrote: > >> This is an illustration of exactly how people do not always >> understand what is being asked, and things get out of hand. I >> *KNOW* the answers to each of the questions. I am not at all >> interested in reading the answers ... again ... but in a discussion >> of how my fellow admins plan on dealing with the issue of the >> questions being asked, probably repeatedly (if they plan on dealing >> with the issue at all). > > If other list admins aren't understanding you, then maybe you ought to > be clearer, and less tetchy when you are misunderstood. Charani: That is fair enough, and I will for my part try to do better. > If you didn't want answers to your example questions, there was no > need to include them. Posting example questions is neither pointless nor a desire to get answers -- necessarily. If I did not make it clear enough that they were *only* examples, the onus is on me; but the approach still seems valid, on reflection. > A simple "how are other admins planning on dealing with the possibly > repeated questions about such things as enlarging images, etc, if at > all" would probably have sufficed, or repeating the subject line in > the body of the mail. It might have been better, I agree. Or I might have had to explain myself.... > Screaming at people not to write to you directly or address replies to > you (when the list appears to be set for replies to go to both the > list AND the sender) isn't going to help you either. Honestly, where does THIS come from? Was I testy? OK, perhaps. Nolo contendere. But I do not think my post was screaming. And I did not so much as mention how people responded to me. I have no problem with either private or list replies. It is not an issue for me. > Eventually > admins will start ignoring you completely. I hope not, but that is the prerogative of each of my fellow subscribers to LO. > So: > > "Will 1940 Census be OT on your lists?" > > No. > > Better? If that is your answer, then it is neither better nor worse. It is your answer. That is useful information, and I thank you for it. Darrell