Re: [ProgSoc] whinge & bitch session

[daedalus <jpw001@nospam.its.maynick.com.au>]

On Tue, 26 May 1998, Carolyn wrote:

> Since most people are quite happy for progsoc to be running a whinge and
> bitch mail list rather than one to deal with programming problems, I'll 
> include my 2c's.

Mmmm. One wonders if a separate list similar to alt.hacker should be set 
up, where each posting must be accompanied by an Obligatory Hack (aka 
ObHack). Every time you want to comment, or whatever, about something 
which is not directly programming/computer hard/software related, perhaps 
you should be obligated to include some little titbit of knowledge 
gleaned from somewhere or other that you found useful. Call it an ObSoc?

[Resource Centre et al]

Generally I'm sure Resource Centre staff cop a lot from students since 
they are a visible target. I've copped some in reverse when I was at UTS 
with sheer arrogance and rudeness from Resource Centre staff. Maybe 
they'd had a bad day. Not really an excuse, but hey, we all have those. 
Not sure what my point is, except maybe that people should use 
contructive criticism instead of whinging?

> <MORE SPECIFIC WHINGE>

UTS students do have it pretty good. There are quite a lot of computers 
available, though you can't always get one, and ITD are generally more 
tolerant of misbehaviour than the IT person at UniSA. There are a lot of 
improvements that could be made (though plead with them not to replace 
pine with Exchange, as happened here.) but things work pretty fine as is. 
I never had much trouble getting assignments done on ITD equipment, and 
that's what they're for.

> </MORE SPECIFIC WHINGE>
> 
> I'm expecting people to interpret *this* email sensibly as opposed to the
> stupid response I've received on previous mails.

Wizards First Law: People are Stupid.

> <DISCLAIMER TO THE SENSE OF THIS EMAIL>
> Increasingly disallusioned as to the brain capacity of the average student,
> and very tired in general...
> </DISCLAIMER>

Isn't tech support fun? ;)

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