-----Original Message----- From: James Shanks
[mailto:jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 8:30
AM To: nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com Subject: RE: [nv-l] another
list
Folks,
I sent a posting to this list a
couple days ago, which I don't seem to be able to find any more, so I'll try
again.
I inquired about this and
was told that a Tivoli executive had ordered the creation of this
NetView newsgroup so that he could say that all Tivoli products, like
all IBM products, had one. Furthermore, the mention of the newsgroup in
the next version of each product's Release Notes was also mandated. No
one in my group nor in NetView development even saw this boiler plate before
the ID group replaced that book on the CD. It was not considered
technical content and therefore was not given to them to review. That's
why the nv-l list was not mentioned there as well. I have already
escalated this and I think that will be rectified in the Release Notes to the
first FixPack for 7.1.4.
As
for the newsgroup itself, even the people who created it say that they do not
think of it is a replacement for the nv-l list, which they admit is monitored
by people with much more expertise than any newsgroup is.
So my advice is that, as users, you "vote
with your feet" as it were and use the vehicle you prefer. This list is
your forum after all; it was started by customers for customers, and until it
suddenly needed a home and a Tivoli guy volunteered to rescue it, it was
not maintained by IBM at all. If you choose not to participate on the
newsgroup, you need not. I don't plan to, myself.
James Shanks Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for
UNIX and Windows Tivoli Software / IBM Software
Group