Re: Eliminating Combinatorial Relationship Multiplication
Date: 6 Jul 2004 08:26:59 -0700
Message-ID: <235c483f.0407060726.3b7d5820_at_posting.google.com>
- Jeff
"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message news:<8KNFc.20603$%_6.12831_at_attbi_s01>...
> "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1088887202.344807@yasure...
> >
> > I don't show favoritism when it come to calling spam spam. Even when it
> > is someone as esteemed as Joe Celko.
>
> Spam is by definition unsolicited. An on-topic, helpful response to a
> usenet post requesting help is by definition solicited. Your "integrity"
> is just ball-busting on a guy who bends over backwards to help all
> comers for free, and also happens to sell some books for which
> he's probably lucky to clear $25,000 annually. (Trees and
> Hierarchies in SQL doesn't have the same cachet as the latest
> work by David Sedaris. In fact, it's Amazon's 16,754's most
> popular item, right behind the $350 "Suunto Yachtsman Wristop
> Computer Watch w/ Barometer and Compass", and you can
> bet a $350 wrist barometer isn't exactly flying off the shelves.)
>
> You're not engaging in spam-vigilance; you're just engaging
> in gratuitous anticommercialism.
>
>
> > But exactly what is it you have contributed to c.d.o.server?
>
> I could just as well ask what you've contributed to c.d.theory,
> but that wasn't the point. The point was that this thread isn't
> specific to your newsgroup; it spans multiple newsgroups.
> Expecting someone on this thread to conform to the customs
> of one of those newsgroups is as unrealistic as those folks in
> Snakewater, Iowa, who get upset when they see something
> that violates a local ordinance posted on the internet from
> New York City.
>
> But the absolute frosting on the cake, the hypocritical parsley
> on the potatoes, is the fact that both of your posts on this
> topic so far have included links to courses you teach at
> Washington. You're giving those courses away for free,
> I presume? Oh, no, wait, I see; Oracle Application Development
> is $1875. At least Joe's links to his book on Amazon were
> pertinent to the OP's question.
>
>
> Marshall
Received on Tue Jul 06 2004 - 17:26:59 CEST