Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> OK, I will eat crows. I am back. One is enough. Thank you for returning. There are 1100 people on the LUG. (up 10% in the last half year. yay) The probability that person will be in an unhappy mood when you send a message increases as the list gets bigger. On a 10-person list, it's rare to find one of those 10 in a bad way. On a 100-person list, it's 10 times as likely that somebody will be off kilter. On a 1000-person list, it's almost guaranteed. The whole secret to remaining sane while participating in a large list like the LUG is to realize that if you get one message you don't want to read, there were 1099 people who did not send such a message. If you can muster the emotional strength, always assume that out-of-the-blue negative comments reflect more on the person writing them than the person about whom they are written. They usually do.