I suppose I was, until recently unaware of the rift between NNTP responders
and those who use the web interface. I like to think, however, that I have
been able to assist a few people using this less practical method despite my
being concerned for the ratings "nonsense."
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Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen
Office System Solutions Specialist
3Sharp
http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/
"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote:
Hi Doug
DougieVan wrote:
John,
Why did you accept the "MVP" designation?
John will speak for himself in time.
There are many MVPs awarded by Microsoft these days, and not everybody
has got the title for the same community "achievements." For most MVPs
you meet in this forum, newsgroups are a prime factor of their
"MVPhood." But there are other users, other products, other communities.
But many of us are "here" in the newsgroups because, well, we fought
with the product like so many other users out there, we profited from
feedback in here, and then we gradually started giving something back.
Many will do so no matter any award or not. And many feel that, the more
we start caring about ratings and some such nonsense, we don't do what
we are here for: to learn, and to share.
And many of the posters who do a lot of newsgroup postings are thinking
pretty poorly of all web-based access mechanisms to the forums. [At
least I do, for those I've seen so far -- FWIW :-)]
It might be OK for somebody to ask a question once and read the answers.
[Many comming through the web interface are having a hard time
retrieving their original thread.] It's already pretty clunky to read a
lot through the web interface. If you try writing 20 answers in a short
time, then it simply won't cut it -- unless you access via NNTP.
Greetings
Robert
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