teachndad
2002-04-25, 04:24 AM
I moved my response to "New rider 20" - 24" to the top of a new thread because I felt the responses to my post would get buried and I wanted to make it more public.
Here was my response to Uni- Daks comment about sending people to the search engine for riding tips.
When I came to RSu last May, I began asking questions. A lot of people answered and it really helped. It also gave me a feeling that I had a place to go for advice and I eventually developed some friendships among the newsgroup members.
While going to the search engine for past threads is helpful, it is highly impersonal. I wouldn't want to start there. I wouldn't send a newbie there either.
If it wasn't for the help of people like Jeff Lutkus, John Foss and even Jack Halpern in those early days, I may not have come this far. Right now, I feel like part of a community and that is sometimes hard to come by in the hectic lives that some of us lead these days.
I think it's important to make newcomers welcome and give them all of the help they can get. God, knows they will need it. There are plenty of experienced riders out there who can give advice.
Everyone has a choice on whether to respond or not. Choose not to if you don't want to help. The newbie post titles are always easy to preread. That would give anyone an indication of what the thread was about, thus allowing one to make his/her choice whether to read it or not.
There are soooo many threads that come through the newsgroup in a day. One or two beginner threads aren't going to slow it down. The newbies need to see that there are other beginners out there going through the same things they are.
... c'mon
Work the maze.
Bruce Edwards answered similarly to me and his response is still in the old thread. We were actually typing at the same time, he just finished first.
Here was my response to Uni- Daks comment about sending people to the search engine for riding tips.
When I came to RSu last May, I began asking questions. A lot of people answered and it really helped. It also gave me a feeling that I had a place to go for advice and I eventually developed some friendships among the newsgroup members.
While going to the search engine for past threads is helpful, it is highly impersonal. I wouldn't want to start there. I wouldn't send a newbie there either.
If it wasn't for the help of people like Jeff Lutkus, John Foss and even Jack Halpern in those early days, I may not have come this far. Right now, I feel like part of a community and that is sometimes hard to come by in the hectic lives that some of us lead these days.
I think it's important to make newcomers welcome and give them all of the help they can get. God, knows they will need it. There are plenty of experienced riders out there who can give advice.
Everyone has a choice on whether to respond or not. Choose not to if you don't want to help. The newbie post titles are always easy to preread. That would give anyone an indication of what the thread was about, thus allowing one to make his/her choice whether to read it or not.
There are soooo many threads that come through the newsgroup in a day. One or two beginner threads aren't going to slow it down. The newbies need to see that there are other beginners out there going through the same things they are.
... c'mon
Work the maze.
Bruce Edwards answered similarly to me and his response is still in the old thread. We were actually typing at the same time, he just finished first.