Posted by
Moon Kid on
Apr 02, 2014; 7:04am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Abuse-of-List-Through-Excessive-Posts-Foul-Language-tp5725157p5725164.html
Dear Jeanne,
first of all I apologize for what ever I have done.
Please help me to learn and give me examples of my "Foul Language". I
don't really know what it could be.
An explanation for you could be that my english is quite bad, either
for a german person.
Another factor could be the cultural gap. Depending on your domain I
would say you are from the USA? I know nothing about the culture there.
I can just tell you about my culture that most of our people prefer
open and direct conversations.
For example your post is quite indirect but of course I know who you
mean with it.
The world would be a little bit better if everyone would just say (in
correct and friendly words) what the problem is.
> Simple math will tell you
> [..]
> result in 6,900 emails per day in all of our boxes. This would make
> it completely impossible for this list to exist.
Currently the list has a litle bit more than 1400 subscribers. Anyway
it is not much. Did you ever used other mailinglists or the usenet (aka
newsgroups)? There are lists with some hundreds mails per day.
The traffic in this list here is near to "death" related to other lists.
As my colleges here suggested:
Don't use your primary mailbox for mailinglist. You should use a second
mailbox for that. And use the filter machnism of your mail-software.
> we used this thing called a manual and
> learned some stuff through trial and error.
I described my problems with the SPSS-documentation and the big
difference with the concepts and paradigmn behind SPSS in another
thread. I understand that my point of view is very hard to understand
for someone who is not a software-/database-developer and who used SPSS
for decades.
I know it is to easy to say that SPSS is an old thing from the 60ties.
When SPSS was born the designers had a concept in their mind and
implemented it. In that age data processing was quite different to now.
SPSS hold the old concepts and try to fit to the "new" age. This makes
it quite hard to get into it.
I don't only use a software. Especially a software like SPSS... I want
to get INTO it and behind the concepts. I really try to understand it
not only using it.
When I want to do something new with SPSS I often don't know what
"words" in the SPSS concept are used for it. So I am not able to search
(but I try) because SPSS and me, we are using very different languages
(I don't mean the english-german-gap) because of our different paradigms
we are coming from.
So please apologize for being like I am and stepping on your foots with
it. Help to to fit better in this group with communicating more open
and direct with me.
And please accept that there are people using SPSS they come from very
different ways of thinking and experiences.
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