Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!eg.ti.COM!THURY%MCOPN1 From: THURY%MCOPN1@eg.ti.COM (Denny Thury -- VAX System Sup -- 952-2066) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: I wholeheartedly agree!! Message-ID: <8707240107.AA06210@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 12:24:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8707240107.AA06210 Posted: Thu Jul 23 12:24:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 10:51:52 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 35 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