| Re: What's Happened to IDL Newsgroup? [message #37670] |
Tue, 20 January 2004 05:16  |
Haje Korth
Messages: 651
Registered: May 1997
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Remember that everyone here in the NG is jsut a volunteer, while your
someone@mathworks.com gets paid 8 hours a day fro helping you. My schedule
is getting more and more busy and I find hardly time to read the NG. Also,
should you not get an answer (happened to me too), it may well be that your
question is so exotic that noone has dealt with your particular issue
before.
Haje
"trouble" <the_cacc@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:5f9f0a23.0401192021.456eac5e@posting.google.com...
> David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:<MPG.1a71a601ce477b379897a7@news.frii.com>...
>> Folks,
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>> What has happened to the IDL newsgroup!? Is it relevant anymore?
>> Has everyone moved to RSI's forum page?
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> I think IDL people need to read and respond to messages posted here.
> Compare with MATLAB, for example. When I've posted a genuine question
> in that ng, I've always had a response from someone@mathworks.com
> within a few hours plus the regular participants!!
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> I emailed mathworks as well one time, there was no "What's your
> reference number, product code, etc." bull, they just answered my
> question! I've written to RSI a couple of times with specific
> questions (of a mathermatical nature) and the salesperson replying
> can't answer so offers to forward my message onto the 'engineers'...
> who I presume *do* exist somwhere, although they certainly keep quiet.
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| Re: What's Happened to IDL Newsgroup? [message #37691 is a reply to message #37690] |
Fri, 16 January 2004 09:00  |
Michael Wallace
Messages: 409
Registered: December 2003
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David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
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> What has happened to the IDL newsgroup!? Is it relevant anymore?
> Has everyone moved to RSI's forum page?
I have not. In fact, I didn't know it existed. Why doesn't anyone ever
tell me these things?! Oh, wait.... I think it's because I've only been
working with IDL for 3 months or so now.... Anyways, I guess I'm just
old-fashioned since I prefer good ol' news over the web forum stuff.
Besides, RSI's little forum there wasn't all that aesthetically pleasing
and I didn't care for the navigation. Oh, well.
> I wrote three (at least) inflammatory articles yesterday,
> trying to get a rise out of someone and .... nothing. :-(
You did get a rise out of me on one of them, but being the "New Guy"
around here and not quite knowing everyone's personality (and the level
of off-topic tolerance), I chose to be nice and keep quiet. ;-)
> P.S. If you are looking for me, I'll be hanging out in
> the future at alt.sci.fetish.moonmission.
We're taking this baby to the moooooooooooon!!!
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| Re: What's Happened to IDL Newsgroup? [message #37793 is a reply to message #37677] |
Mon, 26 January 2004 10:58 |
condor
Messages: 35
Registered: January 2002
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mmiller3@iupui.edu (Michael A. Miller) wrote in message news:<87vfn8kjw8.fsf@lumen.indyrad.iupui.edu>...
>>>> >> "Rick" == Rick Towler <rtowler@u.washington.edu> writes:
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>> I can't even find a reference to comp.lang.idl-pvwave on
>> their site (although one probably exists somewhere).
>
> To be fair, typing "forum" into RSI own search link results in
> "No results where found." (their spelling)
I think RSI (is the only institution in the world that) ought to be
allowed to use the word "where" when making reference to any aspect of
the process of searching items in a dataset.
I don't know about "regulars" -- I drop in here when I have a few
minutes to kill to see if there's something simple where I can help
out someone and there's nothing interesting on my other regular
newsgroups (alt.sex.emacs and such). It has to be simple, or otherwise
I'm out of my depth immediately. But most of the time the questions
here are about some arcana I didn't even know existed (or have been
shunning with disgust). I tend to come away with a good new idea here
and there but my reading-to-posting ratio is rather large (and it's
not because I read here terribly often).
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