Re: st: responses to new users

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

I am the only one who can throw you off of Statalist, and I don't 
remember threatening anyone.

m.p.

SamL wrote:


> The issue of how to respond to people who send questions that by someone's
> criterion do not belong on statalist is up again.  I wait with great
> anticipation, and hope, that this issue will be resolved respectfully this
> time.
>
> I say that because many people seem to have things they don't want to see
> on the list.  I get frustrated when people ask questions about word
> processing packages; I would think that should be sent to lists for those
> packages.  But when I raised that issue, out of the legitimate concern
> that such questions could take over the list and drive away the people who
> answer the large majority of questions, I was berated for doing so.  Some
> people seemed to think I had been particularly harsh when, I think, I was
> trying to be clear, direct, and good-natured, too.  No one ever sent me a
> note privately about their discomfort with my view or approach; had they
> done so it would have allowed a reasonable, respectful resolution.
> Instead, I was privately threatened with being thrown off statalist, by
> the people who had the power to do so.
>
> Now, the issue of how to respond to people who send questions that by
> someone's criterion do not belong on the list is up again, in another
> form.  I wait with great anticipation, and hope, that this issue will be
> resolved respectfully, publicly, and in the spirit of preserving "the
> commons" this time.
>
> Sincerely and respectfully yours,
> Sam
>
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