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From: THURY%MCOPN1@eg.ti.COM (Denny Thury -- VAX System Sup -- 952-2066)
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Subject: I wholeheartedly agree!!
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Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 12:24:00 EDT
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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