Re: Development Trends in Web and Oracle

> If you insist to treat XML as THE ONLY GOSPEL (which qualifies you as
> a troll), could you at least try to find some other playground?
>
>

Read the thread again Sybrand. I have agreed with contributors to this thread that the use XML may be appropriate in a database. I have never said it is the ONLY gospel. What I disagree with is blanket statements like the ones that come from Daniel Morgan that it doesn't belong in databases, ever. Specifically quote:

>> And who else can I trash ... XML doesn't belong in databases.
>> <ed> more rants deleted

Simply writing this without qualification, then responding to a civilised question in the thread culminating in talk of spanners, 747's, and ending in insults isn't helpful.

> Those some people are usually also enough of a coward not to disclose
> their real name, and to hide themselves behind stupid disclaimers.

Read my disclaimer - the first posting in this thread under "hexathioorthooxalate". I write in it I might choose to disclose my real name, I don't hide behind it at all, but if I do would people respect my privacy. And for the few people that have contacted me directly about things offline, more often than not I have disclosed my identity. But this time, with words like coward, troll, ... etc being used in the thread, not on your life. Why disclose my real name to be in the NNTP groups for eternity, effectively as slander, effect job prospects etc. Ahh., that's right. That's why I don't disclose my real name isn't it.

Hex

"Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message news:nsb831phagoet8lk6m9eh2eiiugga05d3a_at_4ax.com...
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:59:30 -0000, "Hexathioorthooxalate"
> <ruler_at_removemetoemail.clara.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>I saw a few days ago Jonathan Lewis in this newsgroup wrote yet again a
>>note
>>on Etiquette. I suggest you read it. It seems to me that you constantly
>>cannot differentiate between a difference of opinion between the
>>contributions of people in this newsgroup without resorting to this type,
>>or
>>more often worse, comment. Do have a look at the tone of posts made by
>>Jonathan Lewis, Tom Kyte, Niall Litchfield. They are helpful, informative,
>>and they know their stuff. They're respected too. The same cannot be said
>>about postings where you have contributed - often terminating in an insult
>>exchange. I do not believe you are a good ambassador for yourself, this
>>newsgroup, or the University of Washington.
>
> The strange thing with some people here, they are so convinced they
> are always right, as soon as they are proven wrong, they start to yell
> about Netiquette.
> Those some people are usually also enough of a coward not to disclose
> their real name, and to hide themselves behind stupid disclaimers.
>
> Guess you fall in all of those categories.
>
> If you insist to treat XML as THE ONLY GOSPEL (which qualifies you as
> a troll), could you at least try to find some other playground?
>
>
> --
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
Received on Sun Mar 13 2005 - 08:17:46 CST