[Pdx-pm] [meeting notes] What can we do about the low student SoC turn out?

Colin Kuskie colin.kuskie at maxim-ic.com
Fri Apr 11 11:09:31 PDT 2008


On Friday 11 April 2008 11:05, chromatic wrote:
> On Friday 11 April 2008 10:44:56 jerry gay wrote:
> 
> > i don' think there's anybody on this list that will fail to respond to
> > a message asking for clarification or elucidation... but you won't get
> > any unless you ask for it!
> 
> There's the lurker paradox, though.  If you subscribe to a list of smart 
> people talking about smart things you don't necessarily understand, do you 
> really want to interrupt the conversation and ask for explanation of 
> everything you don't understand?  Even if there are a dozen lurkers for every 
> poster who want the same thing, you can't see any of the others, and you 
> don't know if you're the only person confused or wanting more information.
> 
> I don't know how to break that dilemma, but I've seen it many times, and I 
> suspect it's happened on this list often.

<unlurk> Yup </unlurk>

Colin



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