Xref: utzoo news.admin:15014 news.software.b:8160 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!abvax!iccgcc!herrickd From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <4812.284e0cf6@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Date: 6 Jun 91 15:22:46 GMT References: <3752@ksr.com> <10623@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1991May29.221015.1865@druid.uucp> <1991May31.101334@mccall.com> Lines: 45 In article <1991May31.101334@mccall.com>, tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) writes: > > How about the "WHY DIDN'T SOMEONE TELL US IN ADVANCE" group? Answers to > that one that I've seen (all paraphrased), and my responses: > > 1) Because we didn't have time. > > This patch had to go out in such a hurry? > > 2) Nobody would fix the software anyway until we dropped articles > > Pure BS. I know I would have. I suspect the author of dxrn would have. > Unfortunately, he was gone so I had to, and in a big hurry, causing me > to screw up twice trying to get it out the door. > > 3) Who cares about the rest of the world as long as C news works. > > This seems to be the majority opinion (though not that of the more > responsible people, who fall into groups 1 and 2). > > 4) We could have done a better job, we're sorry, and will try to avoid > similar debacles in the future. > > OOPS! What was I thinking? That response has been totally absent. I > must have dreamed it. > You left out the response by the people who paid attention. Their response was "It was announced about three months in advance." The phone companies have a similar problem when they split an area code. They plaster billboards and the sides of buses and the newspapers and pay phones with announcements that the area code is going to change. There will be a period when you can dial either the old way or the new way and your call will go through. Then there will be a day when the old way will not work. When that fateful day comes around, some people continue on about their business without noticing. Others scream bloody murder because THEY broke my system and nobody warned me. The discussions of this on comp.dcom.telecom have been quite amusing. So have the parallel discussions here. dan herrick herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com