Does your unix admin at work ever send emails longer than 2 lines?

[Hoober]

Yeah, who uses notes, too? 1-2-3 for DOS was interesting.

 

[partimegeek]

Wasn't Notes great until MS came out with their integrated system? It was the ultimate sharing software. And I guess when you plunk down millions on dominos you don't really want to switch.

Just my opinion. I think brevity is clarity. I hate mails that are more than 2 paragraphs.

 

[jaydee]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
If these people were socially aware they wouldn't be using unix in the first place.

I think that just about says it all.

 

[Martin]

at least you didnt get an email saying


"rtfm"

 

[Bulk Beef]

Pithy is good. I've been thinking about reducing my vocabulary to just acronyms and alpha-numeric codes.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: sward666

yeah, who uses Unix anyway?

Who uses Notes?

They use it where I work and I hate it.

Only people in the DNS group get to use Outlook.

 

[Geekbabe]

LOL, all bosses should have the gift of such brevity

 

[joohang]

*shivers*

Makes me wonder how bad Lotus Notes is when all these people praise Outlook over Notes. :Q LOL

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: sward666

yeah, who uses Unix anyway?

Who uses Notes?

Along with the "Yakko must be a Unix admin..."

these are my thoughts exactly...

Our Exchange admin is to busy along with 5 other guys doing damage control and being generally both shell shocked and paranoid to engage in conversation.

 

[Geekbabe]

Originally posted by: joohang
*shivers*

Makes me wonder how bad Lotus Notes is when all these people praise Outlook over Notes. :Q LOL

Lotus notes... be afraid,very afreaid.. shudder

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: baffled2

Originally posted by: joohang
*shivers*

Makes me wonder how bad Lotus Notes is when all these people praise Outlook over Notes. :Q LOL

Lotus notes... be afraid,very afreaid.. shudder

Stupid Lotus Notes refuses to follow any of the standard Windows conventions (unless they have seen the light since I quit having to mess with it). Simple little things like F5 for refresh, highlighting blocks of messages with shift and left click etc. They won't even change the install program to setup.exe from install.exe and stick a 16 bit registration reminder program running on a workstation.

 

[ultimatebob]

well, the Notes server admins send us stuff like this:

To: Lotus Mail Users in Sacramento

From: GS Lotus Administrators

Subject: Dwindling Disk Space on Local Sacramento Servers

(big snip)

REAL administrators don't have time to write something that long. His manager probably wrote it for him

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
If these people were socially aware they wouldn't be using unix in the first place.

Yes, because we all know how cool it is to have to install security patches on your server every two weeks to keep them from being compromised

Windows is cute and all, but I want a REAL OS running on MY servers!

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

I tend to cut down most of my replies to 'OK.'

Have, at times, send 'RTFM' to people too. And 'Works now', 'Works fine for me, let me know if it gives problems again', 'Try again now' and stuff like that.

 

[iamwiz82]

here is another unix admin thing. They refuse to talk on the phone. If they have the chance to email you, rather than call you when you are at your desk, they will take it. I do not think they have any social skills whatsoever.