[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

I think we're arguing about how often posters here fulfill that responsibility. Also, people don't come here just to ask questions, but also to learn from others' questions & answers. So even if the initial post and responses are all by people who know which rules they're discussing, they may be read, maybe as much as years later, by other people who don't.

This is not the only forum, nor the only subject, where I think participants should be reminded of that last fact. Too many online forums start out aspiring to universality, but tend to become clubby without anyone's intending them to be so, just because people start assuming knowledge on the part of the participants which tends to exclude strangers.

Robert

I guess my point is ... why are we arguing about how often posters fulfill that responsibility. You say 10%, JR says 90, I say 50. Who cares how common that is. The point has been made that we should do it. Move along. A couple more posts, and this horse will be deader than the Tim McClelland Slow Call post on the baseball board.