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Subject:Re: newbies From:Richard Lippincott <rlippinc -at- BEV -dot- ETN -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 7 Nov 1994 08:46:07 EST
Barra Chantel Reynolds asked "how long does somebody stay a newbie?"
How high is the sky? How big is "huge?" I dunno, but I think at the moment
you see a posting, and believe you can add a relevant response, then you have
found the right moment to post a message.
As for not being a "paid" tech writer, that makes no difference. If you have
information, your employment status doesn't detract from that information.
How long does someone stay a newbie? What keeps coming to my mind was
something I learned while living in Atlanta. I was a transplanted Yankee, as
were a large number of people around me at work. It was quickly apparent that
everyone who had moved down from the north catagorized all other people as
either "Southerners" or "Still Yankees. The apparent definitions were:
1. Southerner: "Me, and everyone who arrived here before me."
2. Still Yankees: "Everyone who arrived here starting the day after me."
Native Southerners, of course, knew better. And for the most part, also knew
that it -really- didn't matter where you were from, so much as what type of
person you were.
Rick Lippincott
Eaton Semiconductor
rlippinc -at- bev -dot- etn -dot- com
