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From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
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Subject: Re: newbies mailing list
In-Reply-To: <19980301181929.41719@welearn.com.au> from Sue Blake at "Mar 1, 98 06:19:29 pm"
To: sue@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake)
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 18:43:54 +1100 (EST)
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Sue Blake wrote:
> Yeah, maybe it would be more usefully presented as a newbies chat list,
> so as to avoid reliance on it for answers and to invite chat.

So now you've talked your way around to this list. Why not just use it?

> Hmm, I'm thinking that it's easier to communicate in a space that you own
> (as a newbie) rather than one where you're a guest, and a few too clever
> people could take that feeling away.

Then you'll need to host your own list and invite others to post to it.
If you can do that, then you're probably no longer a newbie so you
might have to stop using your own list. 8-)

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