Re: How do you do it?

Rogerio Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave is impressive, indeed. Thanks. :-) Note that I'm going to to be taking about a month off starting next Monday to take the family out to the Grand Canyon. I won't be helping out here till I get back. But Dan's got to get the prize.

Re: How do you do it?

Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:58:58PM -0300, Rogerio Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave is impressive, indeed. But Dan's got to get the prize. Let's see. The man is a teacher, active researcher writing papers about Number Theory

Re: How do you do it?

On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:58:58PM -0300, Rogerio Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave is impressive, indeed. But Dan's got to get the prize. Let's see. The man is a teacher, active researcher writing papers about Number Theory (that's what I want to be when I grow

How do you do it?

I have a simple, non-qmail question: How do you do it? You write and maintain a massive quantity of qmail documentation. You seem to post more responses to more questions on the list than is humanly possible! Many of the questions are rather inane, and yet the closest thing I've seen

Re: How do you do it?

Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a simple, non-qmail question: How do you do it? You write and maintain a massive quantity of qmail documentation. You seem to post more responses to more questions on the list than is humanly possible! Many of the questions are rather inane

Re: How do you do it?

On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 01:22:46PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: I have a full "real life", which is why I don't always respond quickly to list questions. Does it perchance involve empty beer bottles : In fact Dave, couldn't be a nicer guy. He once swapped something of value with me for a couple

Re: How do you do it?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 01:22:46PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: I have a full "real life", which is why I don't always respond quickly to list questions. Does it perchance involve empty beer bottles : See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/beer.html Or, for the bigger

Re: How do you do it?

On Tue, 9 May 2000, Len Budney wrote: At FORE systems we had a phone support person who would shout those things, so loud that everybody in building one could hear it. He was astoundingly imaginative and colorful, and many of his remarks are not printable. Eventually, somebody spied on his

Re: How do you do it?

At FORE systems we had a phone support person who would shout those things, so loud that everybody in building one could hear it. He was astoundingly imaginative and colorful, and many of his remarks are not printable. Eventually, somebody spied on his work, and noticed that he was deftly

Re: How do you do it?

On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:30:01PM -0600, Steve Wolfe wrote: [snip] Back in the day when I did tech support, that sort of thing wasn't uncommon at all. We were all pretty good at doing things like carrying on conversations with other techs, playing hackysack, etc., while helping

Re: How do you do it?

On Tue, 9 May 2000, Steve Wolfe wrote: Back in the day when I did tech support, that sort of thing wasn't uncommon at all. We were all pretty good at doing things like carrying on conversations with other techs, playing hackysack, etc., while helping customers, unbeknownst to them. Every

Re: How do you do it?

Steve Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wish I could go on about the things that people said to me, the things I said to people, and the things I heard other techs say - but it would be a novel. Technical support is definitely a unique learning experience No kidding. Taught me the