But Erik - we'd all miss the free flow of reminiscences and lateral thinking which a positive misunderstanding of such requests generates. :-)
That said, I can see that an occasional reminder to try to imagine the effect of a request for help on the audience might be productive. It was clearly important in this case to know that we were dealing with a FLEX-ES "installation" and that could have been anticipated. Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Bielefeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 02 February, 2006 11:10 PM Subject: Re: Mount a tape > I think this whole discussion was rather interesting. Jerry asked how > to mount a tape, which I thought had to do with physically mounting the > tape. Someone or two said that such a basic question shouldn't be > answered on this forum. Then it was discussed that even these basic > questions should be replied to. Eventually this got off on all sorts > of directions. > > I really think that in this type of question, someone should basically > ask for clarification, and then everyone should wait until the person > furthur states his question. If not, why waste all of the bandwidth > answering maybe this is what he wanted. > > Eric Bielefeld > Sr. Systems Programmer > P&H Mining Equipment > 414-671-7849 > Milwaukee, Wisconsin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
