Topic, and topic wander. Or possibly the thought that someone else will
pick up the gauntlet on the question.
Personally, the subject line, and who is posting on the thread will draw me
in. Not necessarily who posted he original question.
TonyC
-----Original Message-----
From: DakotaJohn <jkp61@horizonview.net>
To: DML <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Date: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:30 AM
Subject: DML: I Wonder?
>
> I wonder what it is that gets people on this list to respond to a posted
>message.?! Is it the person that posts it, or the topic, or just that it
was
>there at the right time, or?. There are people on here that have helped me
>and others, yet there are other posts that are completely ignored and I
just
>kind of wonder why. In a group that loves their trucks as much as we do you
>wouldn't think there would be any bias as to who posted the message, but I
>sometimes wonder. Since there are several posts that almost seem to take on
>a life of their own, yet there are almost as many that sit there without no
>one even seeming to notice that they were there. At first I wondered if it
>was just mine, then as I paid more attention, I noticed that it could be
>from anyone, didn't matter if they had been here a long time or had just
>joined. It could even be a similar topic requiring a different answer and
>one person would get several responses and the other person wouldn't even
>get an answer back. Maybe it is just my ramblings and the problem that I
pay
>attention to things too much, but when you are in a group like this you
>start to look at people as your friends, even if you have never met and
when
>you get ignored time and again, you wonder what, if anything, you did wrong
>to deserve it. I have definitely received a lot of useful information from
>this list and I want to say that I do appreciate it. I have also tried to
>help when I could. So for the people that do reply to even the seemingly
>stupidest message, Keep It Up! Thanks, John
>
>
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