RE: [nv-l] another list

[James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com>]

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