As Jar-Jar would say, "Yousa point is well said". But I think the main point in my reply was that the user groups should be open domain for anyone who wants to further the knowledge. Whether you want to further the group knowledge by assisting someone else, or further your knowledge by asking a question, we do not need 'user group police' to put a choke-hold on the info. If someone is afraid of revealing some sensitive aspect of their info then don't participate or simply lurk. If you look in the archives there's a good chance that the question has probably been asked already. I have seen a wide range of discussions on this group and not all of them have related to ClearCase or any of the other tools. These are entertaining if nothing else. The point I think I'm still trying to make is that the information contained in the groups is diverse and the people accessing it are more diverse. One should be wary of anyone who starts asking pointed questions about specifics about your information, but if they are simply trying to figure out a solution to a problem they are facing why shouldn't they be able to use every possible resource to solve it.
And back to one of my questions from the previous e-mail: Who determines who has access and what are the criteria?
Edman
Joe Rioux wrote:
>From: Eddie Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Any information regarding the tools is NOT sensitive
> and anyone that's not a half-wit should be able to ask
> the question in such a way that doesn't reveal anything
> 'sensitive'. I say take a chill pill man.I'm not sure what you mean by tools but if I'm reading
you right, I strongly beg to differ.Case in point (and it happened on cciug): a competitor
of a friend's company cut & pasted information in a
question that told us what compiler they were using
and due to some of the library files listed, what chipset
they were targeting in their product. From that we could
extrapolate as to what features they would likely be
targeting for their next release etc. I can assure you,
what was posted told us far more than this person realized.
Information about some tools can most definitely be
sensitive. It just depends on the type of business you're
in etc. but I don't lose sleep over it, I just use my
head.Anyway, I definitely agree; you're an idiot if you can't
both make that determination and couch your question
such a way that it's not as revealing as it could be.
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