On 15-Oct-99, Andrew Tait wrote:
>>
>> 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.
I know the functions for securing against interference from down the line
are thre and I am slowly piecing together bits and pieces from a variety of
sources.
> 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.
Quite fair comment. I accept that, and admit that the comparison was not
fair. But I do know the stuff I want has been published, and if it's not in
the NetConnect docs, then where is it? If I ask in the outside world, I will
get asked, "Do you have Windoze95 or 98?"
>
>>> As for
>>> the netinfo, well if you aren't an advanced user you don't really need
> it.
Having already had an intruder groping around in my computer, I DO 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.
I felt he was simply dismissing me. My main request was to be pointed at
some literature. Nobody who seeks information should ever be told they don't
need to know that. I can illustrate that by the example of a friend who
bought an '040 accelerator back in the days when they were considered
`blazing fast' When she asked about caches and burst, she was told (by the
dealer) that she didn't need to know that because it was only for advanced users.
Consequently, she
used the thing for several years without caches or bursts. She
was speechless with amazement and anger at the person who told her she
didn't need to know when I showed her that ONE line in her startup sequence
gave her a speed increase that she could hardly believe.
> 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.
I DO need to know because I WANT to know. That alone is plenty adequate
reason. Now, I do accept that there may be good reason for NetConnect's docs
being not fully developed, but surely someone can tell me a good source of
information. If information is not forthcoming in this mailing list, then
what the hell is the purpose of it? Hell man, even in USENET they don't tell
people, "You don't need to know".
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