THURY%MCOPN1@eg.ti.COM (Denny Thury -- VAX System Sup -- 952-2066) (07/23/87)
In a recent submission, Bob Wheeler of Howard Hughes Medical Institute made
the following comments:
"...Those of us who have been running VMS systems for a while
usually try to consult the documentation before yelling
"SYS$ANNOUNCE logical name bug" or running to the net showing our
stupidity. Then when we do find a legitimate problem unless it
has a great impact on other systems we simply and quietly fill out
an SPR instead of trying to show everyone how cute and clever we
are."
"QUIT USING THE NETWORK AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR READING THE
DOCUMENTATION SET."
"I typically don't uncover mail bugs while sending mail to myself,
nor do I want to see the time of day in 47 thousand different
languages. If you have so much time on you hands. Try the orange
binders!..."
I wish to add my TOTAL AGREEMENT with Bob's observations. I've seen
TOO MANY questions, and/or complaints about issues that could have been
quickly resolved by making any reasonable attempt to research the
documentation set. These questions then result in a network flooding
when the SAME answer is contributed by 20 or so well-intentioned info-vax
readers (I get kinda tired of seeing essentially the same response to
one of these questions)!
So PLEASE, everybody, before submitting a problem to the network, take
some time to research the doc set. You may be amazed what you can learn!!
Denny Thury CSnet : THURY%MCOPN1@TI-EG
VAX Systems Support ARPA : THURY%MCOPN1@TI-EG.CSNET
Texas Instruments Incorporated
McKinney, Texas