Hello!

[derannimer]

Er, well, hello all!

<taps mike>

I must say, I'm tremendously honored to ask to be helped with all --

<waves hand helplessly at the 59,121 messages>

-- all of this. Also tremendously overwhelmed -- I guess it never 
occured to me before how much *work* all of you do, and I frankly 
haven't a clue how to get started. Don't get me wrong -- it looks 
like *fun* work -- but I rather feel like I need the equivalent of a 
List Elf about now to tell me where to begin. How does this work, 
anyway: Do we get assigned to specific sorts of things, or do people 
sort of take various tasks as is their preference? What FAQs are we 
thinking of updating -- or are we just going to wait until OOP comes 
out and then update *all* of them in one "swell foop"? When we do see 
particularly interesting posts, is there some sort of catch-all file 
we can send them to until we're ready to write them into a FAQ? Does 
being on this list mean that I have to start reading all the posts, 
at least to the main list? Is this even humanly possible? 

And, er, would it perhaps have been better for me just to have lurked 
for a couple of weeks and watched things operate until I could answer 
all of these questions myself?



Derannimer, who really is pleased as punch to be asked here

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"Anything a body is obliged to do is work, and anything a body is not 
obliged to do is play." -- Mark Twain