Re: you ass

Daniel wrote exactly what I would have said (that's scary of itself) apart from also "Call Oracle Support as (C) item or so, presuming you have a CSI contract entitling you to talk to live people quickly enough to not need to put a codicil in your will to have the return call received by your executor.

The help you get from USENET is FREE. The people that help VOLUNTEER to do so and are not PAID for it.

Many people who may end up saying arrogant things are people that might be fed up by doing other people's jobs, or helping someone with their homework, or have grown weary of things like:

"I get errors when I run a query. Please help."

That's not being fair to the many people who give so generously of their time and expertise with no expectations in return, and frankly, after a note like the one that started this, I am beginning to be much more sympathetic to the "fed up and sarcastic" camp.

RSH.
"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3CC6CCB0.39B8E35E_at_exesolutions.com...
> System Manager wrote:
>
> > Yes you! You, your reply post reads
> >
> > 'read the doc'
> >
> > or
> >
> > 'well I could tell you but do a search on google'
> >
> > or
> >
> > 'hire a consultant'
> >
> > yes, you know who you are - you feel so smug because you've learnt
> > enough to be smug about, yet don't really want to share because you
> > need a smugmans job.
> >
> > you assume that every poster is Oracly challenged and that every
> > question is stupid by default.
> >
> > well here is news for you - Oracle is a freakin application and you
> > don't need a degree and you don't need programming and you don't need
> > to understand squat dodah in order to work it - follow the
> > instructions and run the programs that you didn't write.
> >
> > so in the future shut the fccccckkkkk up and leave the replies for
> > those that deserve their titles as an Oracle DBA.
> >
> > ...
>
> I'll take this personally whether intended for me or not.
>
> Lets get something straight here ... this is the internet. No one here is
> getting paid. No one is being forced to post questions here. No one is
> being forced to answer questions here. And no one is forced to read what
> is posted here. If you have Oracle, and you have questions, you are
> perfectly free to either (A) get a book or manual and read it, (B) get a
> mentor, (C) go to http://metalink.com, (D) go to
> http://technet.oracle.com, (E) go to http://tahiti.oracle.com, (F) go to
> http://asktom.oracle.com, or (G) go to ....
>
> Some people try to take advantage of us by trying to get us to do their
> homework from school. Some try to take advantage of us by trying to get
> us to do the work they get paid to do. And some people are just plain
> lazy. What I try to do is rebuff those that fit the above description
> (and yes occassionally I make a mistake in judgement) and to help those
> that I think have genuinely tried to help themselves and turned to the
> usenet after doing so.
>
> If your maturity level is as low as demonstrated by the subject line you
> posted this thread under, and the explitives it contains, you can
> correctly assume what I think of your point of view and how seriously I
> will take it.
>
> Oh and if you don't like the advice provided here ... feel free to answer
> the questions yourself if you can. No one is stopping you.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Received on Wed Apr 24 2002 - 15:04:48 CDT