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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: ?1-800 from outside USA? + obs. ACLs, resources.
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 10:55:53 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <242001A9_00186610.009673D25A01EB40$95_1@UK.AC.KCL.PH.IPG>
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- In article <242001A9_00186610.009673D25A01EB40$95_1@UK.AC.KCL.PH.IPG>, SYSMGR@IPG.PH.KCL.AC.UK writes:
- >obs. flamers. HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THE POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS OF YOUR NOISE?
- >
- >From where I am,
- >(b) it's not inconcievable that you've contributed to at least one system crash,
- > the one that hit me last night. The active process was the info-VAX
- > redistributor. Of course that may be irrelevant, and I'll never know,
- > but if we hadn't had all that content-free rude-words garbage to digest
- > then just maybe it wouldn't have happened.
-
- So, you haven't taken the trouble to figure out just why your system crashed?
- You're going to hold the rest of the world accountable for the fact that you've
- (possibly) installed an unreliable piece of software?
-
- Don't complain to the people who post to the group, complain to the people who
- wrote the broken software.
-
- Or is it your position that broken software is reasonable?
-
- >(c) it's also not inconcievable that you'll deny someone with an incipient
- > heart attack his last few days on earth. Do you REALLY want to do that?
-
- If he's managing a VAX while incompetent to do so, and hasn't enough brains to
- use a kill file or skip messages he doesn't like, that's his problem. BTW, for
- your information, I happen to have high blood pressure. IF YOU'RE GOING TO
- BITCH ABOUT SUCH THINGS, WHY DON'T YOU ALSO COMPLAIN TO THE IDIOTS WHO THINK
- COMPUTERS WORK BY MAGIC?
-
- >I can cope with naive users who won't RTFM and/or post relevant details very
- >easily by hitting delete; this has little effect on my blood pressure.
-
- Gee, then, jackass, couldn't you do the same for the flames to which you're
- objecting?
-
- >I fear the word "flame" is going the same way as "hacker". Flame used to
- >mean a posting with much valuable technical content, but expressed in a rather
- >passionate manner from a biassed viewpoint. This was often acknowledged by
- >the author who bracketed it with **FLAME ON ** and **FLAME OFF**. Today it
- >just seems to mean a stream of content-free gibberish full of four-letter words.
-
- TECHNICAL INFORMATION FOR AN IDIOT: IF YOU'VE GOT SOFTWARE THAT CRASHES YOUR
- SYSTEM, FIX THE GODDAMNED SOFTWARE!
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 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.
-