Re: Catpatch.sql Problem

Pete Sharman wrote:
>
> In article <KrJda.3055$dE2.7267_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com>, "Howard says...
> >
> >Let me put it this way, Pete.
> >
> >My newsreader (which is temporarily Outlook Express once more,
> >unfortunately) reports that the original post in this thread was 3K big.
> >That "Pete's" post was 15K (because it included an init.ora, as [sort
> >of]requested in the original post) and that Daniel's post (whose original
> >content consisted of the word "Thanks") was 16K.
> >
> >I wasn't "pissed off", or on a short fuse, or needing to get crap out of my
> >system. I merely object to having to download 16K of post, scroll through
> >dozens of lines of post, hoping for wisdom and enlightenment, and finding a
> >one-word reply right at the bottom.
> >
> >And normally, I would have said nothing much about it, but (a) Daniel has
> >been told this before (b) on the same evening's read I noticed a post from
> >him telling someone that it was bad Netiquette to criticise someone's
> >spelling or grammar (c) also on the same evening's read he posted (twice)
> >that it was bad Netiquette to post commercial messages to this newsgroup.
> >And (d) he regularly posts that it is bad Netiquette to cross-post like
> >crazy.
> >
> >So just for once I thought I *would* say something about this particularly
> >gratuitous example of woeful Netiquette on Daniel's own part.
> >
> >If you read it as a flame, so be it. It was intended as a reasonably polite
> >request for Daniel to get his own house in order before proposing to lecture
> >others on the finer points of Netiquette.
> >
> >Regards
> >HJR
> >
> No problems with what you stated at all, Howard. I can totally see where you're
> coming from. Your post just prodded me to remember that I was going to send out
> what I sent earlier. Maybe I shouldn't have attached it to your response though
> - sorry 'bout that.
>
> And what the heck are you doing responding to newsgroups at this hour of the
> morning anyway?! Go back to bed and cuddle she who must be obeyed some more!
> :)
>
> HTH. Additions and corrections welcome.
>
> Pete
>
> SELECT standard_disclaimer, witty_remark FROM company_requirements;

Its not the length of the post, or the lack of snipping, etc etc...I think its a bit rich (for anyone) to start their post with:

"Finally I've got a problem I can't solve."

:-(

Cheers
Connor Received on Thu Mar 20 2003 - 02:23:58 CST