Re: Newsgroup Signal to Noise Ratio

From: Bob Hairgrove <invalid_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 17:55:13 +0200
Message-ID: <ekuo43ht2us2f558adi91b1obcas90b7mn_at_4ax.com>


On Tue, 01 May 2007 12:49:40 GMT, "David Cressey" <cressey73_at_verizon.net> wrote:

>With regard to requests for help that are "over the top", I'll point you to
>this:
>
>http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=499980&start=0&tstart=0
>
>This thing has been making the rounds. I'm convinced that it was intended
>as satire right from the start. It's a little depressing that so many
>people respond to it as if it were serious. I might have done the same
>thing a couple of years ago.

This line is a dead giveaway:

"I KNOW THE ACCESS DATABASE VERY WELL, AND IS FAR BETTER THAN ORACLE. ORCALE IS TOO MANY DOCS..." Amazing, how a troll on one forum can propagate to others with "just a little help from my friends..." ;)

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Bob Hairgrove
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Received on Thu May 17 2007 - 17:55:13 CEST

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