Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:09:07 -0500
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Answer in the archives?
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Whenever a person responds to a question they normally speak from their
own experience.
Although a lot of the questions could be answered by reading either the
owner manual or camper supplement .
I have given incorrect answerers to several of the request for
information and likewise I've read a lot of responses that I totally
disagree with.
With several very qualified re builders and parts vendors adding their
input to our list we are getting a very high quality information in
solving our problems.
I've searched the archives and it has been a very time consuming
activity. The rule of sticking to the subject has gotten pushed aside and
the actual content on the subject is often only two lines out of thirty
documents.
We're all living in a world of instant gratification with credit cards,
fast foods, DSL phone lines, fast information, fast communication; it
just stands to reason that in our own selfish ways we all want that
immediate solution.
Current post are timely and the quality of information supplied by many
very knowledgeable list members is far superior than some of the
information posted in the past and maintained in the archives.
If the rules have to get tighter to keep the quality of the list, I'll
abide with them but I sure don't want to run off some of our best sources
of little known techniques, improved methods or better sources.
Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 22:23:27 -0400 Bradley Flubacher <flubach@HOME.COM>
writes:
> Does it really matter when a question is asked whose answer is
> already in
> the archives? As I see it,
>
> 1. A new or old question asked generates discussion and dynamics
> that most
> likely never existed before. People meet people. I really like that
> aspect
> of it.
> 2. New or old listees reading the new post and responses might learn
> something before it goes wrong for them.
> 3. Bandwidth, server time and disk space are consumed. All cheap by
> today's
> standards.
> 4. Search time through the archive is unnessarily increased.
> 5. People who've already delt with the issue on or off the list see
> a
> message they can/must immediately delete.
>
> So, "should" I really feel guilty about posting a message with a
> question
> that's been answered a few times in the past?
>
> My personal answer- probably not, unless it's something very
> simple, like
> "How do I turn off my OXY light?"
>
> What do yo think?
>
> Bradley Flubacher
> State College, PA
> '82 VW diesel westy
> '84 GL wasserboxer
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