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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Moderated List????
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 12:04:08 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- Message-ID: <1jonroINNt5t@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <2177@bdrc.bdrc.bd.com>, woody@bdrc.bd.com (Woody Muller) writes:
- >>How about all of the people that Carl has helped and/or steered in the right
- >>direction? I think that the latter far out-weigh the former, and frankly, I
- >>don't care about the former. [Steve G.]
- >
- >Here we disagree. The number of people chased away far exceeds the number
- >of people Carl has flamed. A lot of good questions never got asked at all,
- >because potential participants saw that we had a mad dog on our hands.
- >And most of those answers would have come eventually from people with
- >less time on their hands than Carl apparently has.
-
- I see. You're another newbie who hasn't been following this group for years.
- Otherwise you might have addressed the question of how many people I've "helped
- and/or steered in the right direction."
-
- >Knowing what's relevant and what's not is one of the things that divides
- >the help-givers from the help-needers. It is not fair nor valid to expect
- >the questioners to know [almost] as much as the answerers before they even
- >ask. And it is most certainly rude to flame them in public if they don't.
-
- I see. You're yet another of the PC pop-psych folks who believes that someone
- using a computer shouldn't be forced to have even the vaguest idea of how the
- computer works; he shouldn't even understand that what commands he gives the
- computer and what response the computer gives him *MIGHT* be relevent to his
- problem. Go contemplate your navel some more.
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-