If the dictator of Lodz were reading this I'd have taken the trouble to point out something to improve his already excellent command of English, namely that the possessive pronoun for the third person singular male person is "his" - and I'm sorry if he imagined I might be called Christine.
- > BTW: Quick test: count all the messages for last week/month from given author and analyze - how many of them provide any value added. How many of them are helpful to you or person asking for help. Then answer yourself whether it's really worth to receive the messages from this person. I took the challenge! Of course, I couldn't very strictly since I might have difficulty *not* receiving messages from myself - well, I dare say I might go ga-ga eventually and try talking to myself ... Anyhow, he suggested "last month" so I took April and here are the results - and, just to summarise for those who don't like unnecessary tedious detail, the result was 100% "provide any value added" and "helpful to ...<the> person asking for help" - at least in intention - and that's the best we can achieve after all - especially when it's not always clear what the question is about. Incidentally, I could be wrong and I'm open to debate but I don't believe each and every response given in the list is going to be helpful today - who knows what may happen in the future? - to each and every reader which is what is being asked here: "... helpful to you ...". Threads in April in which ONE Chris Mason <[email protected]> made at least one contribution directed at the technical question posed: <list> CICS1USR.CICS1.DFHSHUNT Control date format using Rexx DB2 V9 Vs V10 Deleting post DFHRM0131 CICSINGP Resynchronization required with LU62 resources Error 167 from socket() call in CICS Post on behalf of someone saying "I need to teach myself REXX....." Host integration server connection to mainframe HTTP Server for z/OS IMS Restart Issue Message Pop up No LUs available PDS multi-volume posting commands across systems in a plex What is the point of FFST? When is an OSA card too busy? </list> "Message Pop up" is one where I explained a technique in some detail, incidentally, apropos "trying to show what they all did and knew in the past", this technique relied on something I did long, long ago, around 1982 or so, which - what do you know? - still seems to have some use! "What is the point of FFST?": given who is on his high white horse here, this one is of particular interest. It's a thread I "moved" from another list because the dictator posed a couple of questions that were quite inappropriate where asked - but to give him his due - always actually striving to be fair! - it turned out it was a question worth posing - when relieved of its venom - and it turns out to be an IBM failure - but only wrt z/OS strangely enough. I noted that, within a particular thread, one of my responses shouldn't be counted as "value added" - because I at least try to offer a balanced judgement - since it concerned a response I was obliged to make in answer to an unjustified put-down of an earlier technical response. We just have to bear these burdens! On point cannot be avoided is that the appearance of Jagadishan Perumal ("Jags") in the list has had the effect of boosting my participation count! This prompts me to mention one of the rules of this game which I have, of course, had to set myself. This is that redirecting a participant to a more likely list is valid technical help - involving very little technical knowledge of course and hardly turning the scale of "value added". However better than nothing and one in the eye for Sir Les Patterson. I am even including assisting with a language "false friend" in one case and assisting with "list-craft" and "manual-craft" in others which is not really "technical" but always "helpful" - as I imagine - and hence offering "added value". I'm surprising myself over some of the topics in which I have taken interest given that I work from the archive. To think all these potentially useful hints are being lost to the arrogant spittle- flecked. Chris Mason On Wed, 18 May 2011 09:30:52 +0200, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote: >Rule of thumb: DON'T FEED THE TROLL. > >I'm really tired with the noise generated by ONE person and their >responders. I'm trying to omit threads like "USS" "overloaded acronyms" >and so on, but it doesn't work - I was caught in "SDSF" topic. > >I already put the author of this noise to my killfile, but I'm still >attacked with their wisdom in many responses. > >The only solution is the above: DON'T FEED THE TROLL. > >BTW: Quick test: count all the messages for last week/month from given >author and analyze - how many of them provide any value added. How many >of them are helpful to you or person asking for help. Then answer >yourself whether it's really worth to receive the messages from this person. > > >-- >Radoslaw Skorupka >Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
