At 20:38 12/15/98 -0800, Bruce Lane wrote:
>
> At 09:46 15-12-98 -0500, Chris Fandt wrote:
>
> >Well, I guess we lost an RSX document resource for some reason.
> >http://rsxbbs.delconet.com/ has a shouting message and graphic:
> >"Due to negative comments by posters to vmsnet.pdp-11,
> > the RSX BBS was decommissioned on 13 December 1998.
>
> <snip>
>
> I visited this web site just recently, purely out of curiousity.
Parts
> of the site were clearly marked with warnings against linking to it, and
> outright said things like 'Yes, we have an attitude problem' and other
> nastiness. I found the entire tone to be rude in the extreme.
>
> While it may have been a decent RSX resource, I would have to ask
> myself 'is said resource really worth putting up with the site owner's poor
> people skills, and apparent willingness to be offended at the slightest
> criticism, constructive or otherwise?'
>
> From what I've seen, it looks a lot like a case of a very insecure
> control freak effectively saying 'If you're not gonna play by MY rules, I'm
> gonna take my marbles and go HOME!' I can only speak for myself, but I say
> 'good riddance' and I hope the owner will be very happy with his piles of
> documents and whatever else they've got.
A couple other list members and I had a message or two about this guy and my
take on him is that he's quite emotionally immature. Just like my wife's
ex-husband who who definitely is an immature control freak according to all
ex-friends and ex-employers. Deja Vu. He even messes up my 5 1/2 yr-old stepson
everytime he visits his father. (Don't get me started in rant mode!) What does
Mr. Mitchell have to prove otherwise by such an attitude??
>
> >I cannot keep up with Usenet groups for lack of time. Anybody know what the
> >'negative comments' were about that I (we) missed?
>
> I'm sorry, I thought you knew. Seems that the site's owner didn't
like
> other people providing links to his site. Paranoid, I guess, or they simply
> didn't like free advertising. It turned into a shouting match with others on
> Usenet, and it looks like he removed the resource purely out of spite.
>
> Well Bruce, usually every week or ten days try to I take time to scan the
> bunch of NGs that I try to pay attention to. I missed the mess on
> vmsnet.pdp-11 (thank God!) so wasn't aware of the potential loss. Yes, good
> riddance to such a volitile character.
So, to get to the theme of the revised Subject line, anybody know of a similar
RSX-11M resource online?
For that matter, who are the on-list RSX-11 experts (like our Megan is to
RT-11)?
Over the next months when I can grab time, I'm going to be getting more and
more into RSX-11M+ v. 3.0 on my uPDP-11 and RSX-11M v. 4.1 or 4.2 on my 11/34A.
I may need to ask questions not found (or understood) in my manual set.
Thanks all.
Regards, Chris
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA cfandt_at_netsync.net
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Received on Wed Dec 16 1998 - 07:44:06 GMT