Comments on: Yeah, you don’t want to dare me that http://blog.xcski.com/2008/12/03/yeah-you-dont-want-to-dare-me-that Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:45:21 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mark http://blog.xcski.com/2008/12/03/yeah-you-dont-want-to-dare-me-that/comment-page-1#comment-102941 Mark Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:16:59 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/?p=1675#comment-102941 Little else in life frustrates me more then people who fear change. If the mailing list didn't offer a clear benefit I could understand it, but this seems like someone who is just being stubborn about doing things "their way" despite clear benefits to the alternative. If it involved some new scary or complicated method of sending the communication perhaps I could understand, but if the person in question is functionally capable of sending email (with CC's none the less) then can he not comprehend how the mailing list operates and see the benefits? Little else in life frustrates me more then people who fear change.

If the mailing list didn’t offer a clear benefit I could understand it, but this seems like someone who is just being stubborn about doing things “their way” despite clear benefits to the alternative. If it involved some new scary or complicated method of sending the communication perhaps I could understand, but if the person in question is functionally capable of sending email (with CC’s none the less) then can he not comprehend how the mailing list operates and see the benefits?

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