Hi Everyone,

This is an official admin email. I and several other admins have
exchanged emails and this is a summary of the exchanges.

It is and has been Piclist policy to be tolerant and helpful to newbies.
Nothing in the current discussion has brought anything new to light that
would suggest any changes to the policy.

It has been decided that Olin shall not participate in newbie threads.=20

This was the simplest way to craft a solution. I realize that in some
ways it is unfair as it singles out one user, but trying to define
proper behavior toward newbies leads to rules that offer too many angles
of interpretation.=20

I am tired of hearing discussions about the proper way to ask a
question. There will always be newbies. Some of us have better luck
communicating with them than others.

If you feel a need to reply to this email, please try to show
consideration for all the parties affected by this.

If you want to send a private admin message, the address is
piclist-owner@mit.edu and it gets to all admins. Our spam filter doesn't
like to be in the cc: line so make it the primary recipient if you use
it.

Best regards,

Bob Blick

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