Re: No future for DB2

Nothing like lots of capital letters to advance a technical argument!

You must practise Llap-Goch
(http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/8456/Llapgoch.htm):

" ... the Secret Welsh ART of SELF DEFENCE that requires NO INTELLIGENCE, STRENGTH or PHYSICAL courage

The FANTASTIC SECRETS of the SECRET world-famous method of SELF DEFENCE, kept secret for centuries because of their DEADLY POWER to MAIM, KILL, SMASH, BATTER, FRACTURE, CRUSH, DISMEMBER, CRACK, DISEMBOWEL, CRIPPLE, SNAP and HARM are now revealed to YOU in the English Language by a LLAPGOCH master AT HIS OWN RISK, PROVIDED you promise to MAIM, CRUSH, DISEMBOWEL and so on ONLY in SELF DEFENCE.* * This is just to cover ourselves, as you will understand.

WHO IS THIS MAN?
This is the LLAP-GOCH MASTER who will reveal to YOU ONLY the SECRETS of LLAP-GOCH. He is a fully qualified leek coloured belt first dai master and cares nothing for penal reform.

WHY 'At his own risk'?

BECAUSE if his fellow masters of LLAPGOCH DISCOVER his IDENTITY, they will PUNISH HIM SEVERELY for revealing the DEADLY secrets he had promised to keep SECRET, without giving them a piece of the ACTION, and also BECAUSE of the TERRIBLE risk of PUNISHMENT he runs under the Trades Description Act.
WHAT is LLAP-GOCH?

IT is THE most DEADLY form OF SECRET self-DEFENCE that HAS ever been widely advertised and available to EVERYONE.

WHY ALL the CAPITALS?

Because THE most likely kind OF person TO answer THIS sort OF advertisement HAS less trouble under-STANDING words if they ARE written in BIG letters. ..." Received on Sat Jul 30 2005 - 17:11:22 CDT