RE: Too many answer to simple questions

["David Murphy" <murphy_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's a curious thing: let one new, inexperienced AS400 user ask a very basic 
question and there is a huge hue and cry to "RTFM!" and reams of discussion and 
opinion about too many responses clogging our bandwidth and wasting our time, 
but let a list member of long-standing post something completely irrelevant and 
there's not a peep, particularly not from the list owner. Very curious.

(Nothing personal, Eric).

David Murphy
Information Services
Oregon State Scholarship Commission
1500 Valley River Drive
Eugene, OR 97401
(541) 687-7433


-----Original Message-----
From:   owner-midrange-l@midrange.com  On Behalf Of Eric DeLong
Sent:   Tuesday, January 12, 1999 7:39 AM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re[2]: AS/400 news on ZDNET


     "Trouble with Nibbles"
     
     Scene opens: Our heroes, Cap'n Lou and his trusty sidekick Mr. 
     Soltis viewing something strange.
     
     Cap'n Lou:     What the heck is that?
     
     Mr.Soltis:     It appears to be a 'nibble', and there appears to be 
     more of them leaking from that machine.
     
     Cap'n Lou:     I recognise that machine. It's an NT server 
     installed here by the nefarious BG. No one knows what these things 
     are for, but they seem to be throwing the galaxy into terror and 
     mayhem. Wherever they're located, computers just start rebooting 
     for no reason..... (reaching out for a group of nibbles)
     
     Mr.Soltis:     Careful Cap'n, a single nibble by itself is 
     relatively harmless, but get two of them together, and they'll 
     byte. I've heard it can be quite uncomfortable. 
     
+---

+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---