> > As a bystander, I would much rather see silence than some forty or > > fifty "sorry, don't know anything about that" responses flooding the > > list after every request for help. > > I couldn't agree more, Mouse! lol.
\begin{aolmode} Me too \end{aolmode} Nobody here knows everything, and for everyone (or even all the regulars) to say 'I don't know' every time is going to make the list unusable fast. > Holm, dude! I'm not speaking for > others, of course, but it is bothersome > *to me* when someone posts to this list > (or any other helpful list) with an air > of entitlement and expectation that > people are going to *immediately* > provide *insane amounts* of spot-on > support for whatever their problem is > (no matter how esoteric), or even > respond at all. All responses are > voluntary -- and we should all be > gracious and thankful for *anything we > get*.. and certainly not disparage the > list if we get nothing. There is one, and only one, way of ensuring I give a reply. And that is to pay my consultancy rates (which are not cheap!). I suspect the same applies to others here. If I agree to do a piece of work for you, and you pay me, then of course I will do it to the best of my ability. That is what you are paying for. But note also that I have to agree to do it. In this case I would not do so. Not for any personal reasons but because I know nothing about DSSI disks or the RF73, I have no manuals on them, I have no way of getting such manuals, My VAX has an R80 drive, my PDP11s have RK05s, RK07s and RL's. Ask about those and I might be able to help. > Nothing is OWED to ANYONE. My experience of this list is that people will go out of their way to help each other. But only if they can. I think a reasonable conclusion is that nobody has any service information on the RF73. It's a pity, and I would love to be proved wrong, but... -tony