RE: Most illogical documentation

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Dori Green wrote:
 
> Our IT department continues to insist on blasting out a 
> "distribution:everybody" e-mail to let us all know that the 
> system is working again and we can log back onto our computers.

I once worked at a place where you weren't allowed to call IT, you had
to request help via email. So if you had a network problem, you had to
ask a co-worker who didn't have a network problem to contact IT for you.
This became a bit troublesome when an entire subnet went down.

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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