toch iemand die de boel kan relativeren !
;-)
"Gerard H. Pille" <ghp_at_skynet.be> wrote in message
news:3BE68642.2245726F_at_skynet.be...
> Neil Garner wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for your comments.
> > My suspicion that using a newsgroup with highly educated/experienced
> > boffins, who look down on us mere mortals/learners/beginners with the
> > contempt, we obviously deserve, has once again been thoroughly
confirmed.
> >
> > Hth,
>
> Hello Neil (or Jim?),
>
> You shouldn't complain, I had a look at your posting and Mr. Bakker's
> answer, and for his way of answering, you have been treated rather
> kindly, lots of people were treated a lot worse.
>
> This thread will have pleased Mr. Bakker a lot, receiving so much
> attention, he even had to join in himself, threatening to leave this
> newsgroup. Can you imagine this newsgroup without Mr. Bakker? I do not
> understand that my newspaper and the radio and television were paying so
> much attention to what's happening in Afghanistan and Israel/Palestina,
> while Mr. Bakker was actually threatening to leave this newsgroup. I
> was totally unaware!
>
> In joining this thread a second time, Mr. Bakker felt it necessary to
> generalise: "However I think you will be constantly at war here with
> every experienced Oracle DBA (in your terms 'more than 5 years', for me
> more than 12)".
>
> I assure you, this is not the case for me (as "experienced" but wishing
> I was younger), and I would be astonished if it would be the case for
> someone like, eg, Thomas Kyte, who puts Mr. Bakker in the shadow (which
> he doesn't like) on both a professional and human (politeness) level.
>
> I hope that you haven't been put off, and if you have a problem which
> you can't solve, please put it to this newsgroup. Mr. Bakker, who may
> be the one answering/solving most of the problems, still does not own
> this newsgroup. His style may be breathtaking, certainly when you are
> new here, but even I am regularly amazed by his reactions. It just
> shows that intelligence and manners are two different things. Mr.
> Bakker is better than most of us, and wants it to be felt and known.
>
> Keep your questions coming, newsgroups are worth more than the best
> service contract one can get. They only cost time ;-)
> --
>
> Gerard H. Pille
>
> (denk even na voor je antwoordt)
Received on Mon Nov 05 2001 - 07:04:31 CST
