I agree. There are many opinions. My preference is to have all the threads
in one email because I regularly delete the old emails. Also if someone is
on holiday/vacation for a while and then returns and answers a question
without the rest of the thread I don't have a clue what he is referring to.
I can see where having long threads can cause a problem when the exchange
admin limits your mailbox size. I'm not sure there is a satisfactory answer.

To paraphrase Abe:

You can please some of the emails all of the time and all of the emails some
of the time, but you can please all of the emails all of the time.

Regards,
 
Patrick Whelan
VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for UNIX.
VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for Windows.

netbackup AT whelan-consulting.co DOT uk



-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Lightner,
Jeff
Sent: 08 June 2011 15:02
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Open file backup error - OT rant

To me the most courteous "email courtesy" would be NOT to bitch about how
others send email.  

There is no consistent view of what is courteous - some hate top posting,
some hate bottom posting, some hate in line responses, some hate emails that
have been trimmed because they think it loses context
whereas others hate the huge threads.   Some complain about HTML mail
where others don't give a *ahem* darn.  Given that these are all OPINIONS of
the folks that have them suggesting that they are FACTS of life seems to me
the ultimate in hubris.


-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of bob944
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 5:34 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Cc: simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Open file backup error

> I would agree! VSP is dire!! Ignore it. I can say that in all my 11+ 
> years in NBU, I turned it off !

I have to throw the BS flag here.  That's just FUD.

Until Microsoft finally came up with VSS in w2k3, the OS vendor provided
*zero* tools for open file backups.  Veritas had been filling that void
since... what, 3.2 c. 1999 or so?  OTM (pre 4.5fp6) and the Veritas-written
replacement, VSP, functioning in the horribly flaky world of Microsoft
device drivers, do a pretty good job of getting a consistent version of
write-locked files that the OS won't otherwise allow to be read.  The admin
had to do his part--configure VSP, have the snap space and not let his PC's
antivirus program lock the snaps.

And while I'm being bitchy, are there more than three people left on this
mailing list WITH THE COURTESY TO EFFING TRIM THEIR 400-LINE REPLIES?


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