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From: AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: Length of unbounded_string.
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:05:45 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2011-10-27T01:05:45-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53864cb3-4e42-4e94-9565-a20b2491772f@r2g2000vbj.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: j8a2mj$8lr$1@munin.nbi.dk

On 27 Okt., 00:47, "Randy Brukardt" <ra...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> "Simon Wright" <si...@pushface.org> wrote in message
>
> > I think this is the 4th time you've been asked for this! NB, 'small'
> > means also 'stand-alone'; just plain Ada, no Gtk etc. Write the...
>
> This is always a problem for any sort of help desk (even an informal one
> like this newsgroup). I can't count the number of times that I was called or
> e-mailed a problem with Janus/Ada where the program fragment was too small
> to figure out what the problem was. In cases like that, it is just a stab in
> the dark to try to help (and asking for more is often considered rude and
> not helpful - help desk is a nearly thankless job).

There are some help desks (or hotlines), especially the one of the
German Telecom, which reply in a form which plainly shows that they
haven't even read the report.

So the problem with hotlines is often on both sides (but not in CLA).



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-27  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-25  9:37 Length of unbounded_string ldries46
2011-10-25 17:57 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-10-28  2:54   ` ldries46
2011-10-28  4:55     ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-10-25 20:23 ` Vadim Godunko
2011-10-25 21:28   ` Simon Wright
2011-10-26  4:41     ` Simon Wright
2011-10-26 22:47     ` Randy Brukardt
2011-10-27  8:05       ` AdaMagica [this message]
2011-10-27  8:56       ` Simon Wright
2011-10-27 11:05         ` Brian Drummond
2011-10-28  3:12           ` ldries46
     [not found]           ` <4eafc489$0$3081$703f8584@textnews.kpn.nl>
2011-11-01 18:22             ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-10-27 11:28         ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-27 12:17           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-27 13:31             ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-27 14:34               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-16  8:48 ldries46
2011-10-16  9:59 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-10-16 12:06   ` ldries46
2011-10-16 12:52   ` ldries46
2011-10-16 13:00     ` Niklas Holsti
2011-10-17  7:39       ` ldries46
2011-10-17 19:49         ` Niklas Holsti
2011-10-18 11:47           ` ldries46
2011-10-18 17:54             ` Niklas Holsti
2011-10-19  2:38               ` ldries46
2011-10-19  6:07                 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-10-24 15:10                   ` ldries46
2011-10-19  6:37                 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-19 14:48                 ` Alex Mentis
2011-10-24 17:04                   ` ldries46
2011-10-16 10:14 ` Vinzent Hoefler
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