Re: NL Scoreboard as of 08:10 p.m. / Jul 30

Jonathan Leffler wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, KENDRICKS CHERYL wrote: > > Am I crazy or what! Why are we suddenly getting all these post that have > > NOTHING to DO with Informix? > > Or what! > > No, you are not crazy. The Informix list news-to-mail gateway seems to > have been suffering from a glitch and downloading random non-Informix > postings. It has also been suffering from some fairly major (multi-day) > delays in forwarding postings. The list managers are trying to recover > from this. In the mean time, please be patient, quietly delete the > messages, and don't bug the people who sent them as they are completely > innocent in the matter -- it is *NOT* their fault. Although whilst quietly deleting these messages, I do find that swearing loudly, laughing hysterically or BOTH helps to alleviate the frustration. At the same time, this will raise your work colleagues interest in these messages. :-) Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| |mailto:mdstock@informix.com http://www.informix.com/idn |///// / //| |http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | Tel: +27 11 807 0313 |If it's slow, the users complain. |/// / ////| | Fax: +27 11 807 2594 |If it's fast, the users keep quiet.|// / /////| |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Therefore, "No news: travels fast"!|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+