On Thu, 2 Feb 1995 17:06:48 EST Spiros Liolis <[log in to unmask]>
said:
>And if I tell you that those changes have been already made three weeks
>ago, what will your next recommendation be?
My recommendation will be to pause and consider the psychology of
technical people. Technical people have an unfortunate tendency to get
upset when the same person asks the same question more than once in a
*lifetime*. The same technical people who will completely forget that
you've been sending them mail for the past 3 days asking about something
will remember that 2 years ago you asked the very same question and they
gave you a detailed answer. They'll remember that they bet a pizza that
you'd ask again within X months and will start arguing about the value of
X to determine who owes how many pizzas to whom. Needless to say, your
only chance of getting a second answer is to buy them all a pizza and
swear it will never happen again. Checking the logs is much more
convenient :-)
Eric