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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] GIS-List Focus |
| Date: |
03/23/2005 07:45:03 AM |
| From: |
Leonie Meiring |
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Dear Listers
Support? What support? In my country (south of the equator) it's very
difficult to find speedy support and solutions for most of the different
GIS softwares, considering that we use hamsters to power the computers.
We feed them "super-cabbage-al-fresco-al-donuts" every morning and by
the time they need to give more juice for the GIS functions they tend to
get cranky and blow the circuits. I only just managed to send you all
this trivial piece of e-mail via the express-hamster-back-up. Can you
imagine what would happen if a bug got into the system?
This is just to illustrate the frustrations of living in a third world
country where "GIS support" has not been perfected yet.
-----Original Message-----
From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of J Bee
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 12:00 PM
To: gislist@lists.geocomm.com
Subject: [spamcatcher] Re: [gislist] GISlist Focus
A matter of personal preference? I'm trying to fight the feeling that
the folks who want to continue using this list as tech support are not
completely anal, but it its a hard battle.
Example:
Bill Thoen Wrote:
>Why is there such resistence to using any number of the possible
>alternative ESRI-focused support lists for ESRI-focused product support
>questions?!?
The basic point is that there are so many other places to get tech
support, and this list is not a tech support list. Cry about ARC
whatever, to ARC specific users via ARC specific user lists. Let's see,
there's only about 30 of them. How you get a color pallete from within
ArcGIS is not a GIS-list serve question. Who has the best GIS
education, is GIS certification worth it, the OGC, etc., are dicussions
the list was designed to facilitate. It ain't a civil rights issue, nor
rocket science to figure this one out.
What the &^^ the Yankees and soceer have to do with this issue is beyond
me.
Bob
"McGuire, Matt" <Matt.McGuire@CO.DAKOTA.MN.US> wrote:
I think you'll find the ESRI product support forums very active. Why
people want to ask ESRI questions here must be a matter of personal
preference. Personally, I find support.esri.com to have nearly all the
ESRI specific answers for me. However, ESRI is GIS related, and this is
a GIS list.
When talking baseball, don't be surprised when the Yankee fans show up.
(or futbol and Real Madrid, this is a worldwide list after all.)
>Bill Thoen Wrote:
>Why is there such resistence to using any number of the possible
>alternative ESRI-focused support lists for ESRI-focused product support
>questions?!? Everybody else with non-ESRI software tech support
questions
>takes them to the appropriate list and uses GISlist only for topics
that
>have to do with GIS. And no, questions about "runtime error in ArcGis9"
or
>how to create dynamic legends in ArcMap are not "anything GIS."
>On the other hand, questions about how to extract some information
using
>some spatial operation in some particular software product I'd say are
>more on-topic for GISlist. Questions about how to convert data from
>or to ESRI formats don't bother me either. I'm just asking for people
to
>be a bit more discriminating over what they consider "anything GIS
>related."
>- Bill Thoen
Matt McGuire
Dakota County Office of GIS
952.891.7083
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