Re: Oracle 9i first impressions.

"Ux" <dontsendmemail_at_bogusmailaddress.com> wrote in message news:oST17.9237$Fy3.803829_at_bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
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> "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr_at_www.com> wrote in message
> news:3b47e0e5_at_news.iprimus.com.au...
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> > "Ux" <dontsendmemail_at_bogusmailaddress.com> wrote in message
> > news:lVI17.8430$Fy3.741812_at_bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> > > > This has been posted *numerous* times to this group.
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> > > So???
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> > > Old newsgroup messages get cleaned and not everyobody is able to read
> > > *every* message posted here day in and day out.
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> > True enough ...but I think the real point being made was that posters
 here
> > should familiarise themselves with the Google Usenet archive... a great
> > source of old info that can be searched relatively painlessly.
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> This is an online community and somebody would come in and start a
> conversation (thread). Repeated or not, that's the way it is.
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And do you walk in to a crowded room and just start talking away without at least taking a moment to familiarise yourself with what is being said and what the topic of conversation is? A person risks making a complete ass of himself if he does so.

Online communities, like off-line ones, have basic standards of politeness and decenct behaviour, and in this particular community, the general standard appears to be (a) read the relevant documentation before asking a question (b) check the group's current messages for similar questions before asking your version of it and (c) do yourself a favour by at least having a go at reviewing prior posts in the Google archive.

Lots of people appear not to bother with one or other of these precepts, and that's fair enough (particularly if they don't know about Google, for example) -but you can expect fairly terse replies if you don't, including the one that appears to have annoyed you (which I didn't make, incidentally).

HJR
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Received on Sun Jul 08 2001 - 06:30:40 CDT