SC - What is "period"?--off topic

[Laura C. Minnick]

>
>You know what?  I think you folks have just turned my head around.  The
>explanations for "period" given in response to my post have been very, very
>enlightening.  I may just have to re-think (only because I didn't do it 
>right
>the first time) my idea of "period" cooking.  This sounds like a whole mess
>of fun.  I'll give it a shot, anyway.
>
>Balthazar of Blackmoor

and yet, the very same set of messages drove someone else off in a snit.

Newcomers show up expecting everything from "can you tell me how to boil 
water" to assistance with quite detailed research that only a few of us can 
manage to answer. In any given month the hundreds of posts may be mostly at 
one end or the other of that scale--tending toward the research is good 
viewpoint.  In my observation, it takes about a month for a newcomer to 
realize the list's preference for research and best attempt at recreation 
vs. what some define as acceptable creativity.  What we are doing during any 
newcomers first month is crucial, dependent greatly on what questions happen 
to be asked or what pronouncements have been put forth. I guess it's just 
luck, good or bad, that makes newcomers feel intrigued and welcomed vs. hurt 
and dismissed.

Bonne




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