Re: DATAFILE?? now "RTFM"

I have no problem with pasting a link to the documentation as a response, but I disagree vehemently with "RTFM" as a response

"RTFM" has the subtext to the poster that they were either

1. too lazy to look up the manuals
2. too stupid to look up the manuals

independent of whether or not that was the intention of your "rtfm" response. Its become far too emotive a term - the moment you see "RTFM" in a thread, you rarely see any further sensible or technical discussion follow it.

Of course, maybe a poster IS a lazy sod, or has been swimming at the shallow end of the gene pool - that still does not make it a responders right to assert either. "RTFM" is a responders way of saying "I could answer your question but I choose not to make the effort".... which is far better handled by simply not replying at all.

I'd hate to see Oracle-L degenerate into the farcical slanging match that comp.databases.oracle.server has become..

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