Hi everyone,
----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 14 October 1999 13:38
Subject: [netconnect] Re: (no subject)
> On 15-Oct-99, Mark Bond wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Patrick wrote:
> > Hmmm I'm not Chris but I can answer that one I think. Yes the docs can
be
> > a bit sketchy, but in this case its because to be able to use the
database
> > for example, you really need to be an advanced user.
>
> If the features are there, they should be detailed in the docs.
In order to use NC, even as an advanced user, you'd probably never need to
touch the database. It's a low-level function of NC's operation, and as
such is not something that requires manual editing.
> > for anyone who
> > doesn't understand what the different database objects are or do, you
just
> > leave it alone because the defaults should be okay, and trying to
explain
> > would take hours, and reams of paper ( or mega length docs files).
>
> If that's what it takes, then that is what sould be provided. Hev you ever
> had a look at the docs for Fidonet? It takes hours to read and
> if printed, would take reams of paper. I found out everything about
Fidonet
> from only a couple of files--big ones.
Not valid. You can't compare NC to Fidonet. Different userbase, different
size of dev team. Documentation takes TIME. Huge amounts of it, and in
order to provide /coherent/ documentation for something as varied as a
Services database would take man weeks of time.
> > As for
> > the netinfo, well if you aren't an advanced user you don't really need
it.
>
> Thanks for the dismissal. I guess you could give that answer to anyone who
> asks anything about anything. "If you need to ask, then the fact that you
don't know
> indicates that you don't need to know" Do you work for Microsoft?
It's extremely bad manners to attack a fellow user for trying to help. If
the advice was "you don't need to know", you should accept it from a peer,
unless you have _good reason_ to delve into database.
Totty <8^)
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