Re: Tom Kyte Fan Club?

From: Malcolm Dew-Jones <yf110_at_vtn1.victoria.tc.ca>
Date: 26 Nov 2004 11:16:00 -0800
Message-ID: <41a780f0@news.victoria.tc.ca>

Thomas Kyte (thomas.kyte_at_oracle.com) wrote:

: "Alan" <not.me_at_rcn.com> wrote in message news:<30oprfF33jdm4U1_at_uni-berlin.de>...

: > "Oliver Kappel" <ngreply_at_gmx.net> wrote in message
: > news:30nbvhF2vi4p2U1_at_uni-berlin.de...
: > > Don't be silly!
: > >
: > > Tom Kyte is an acronyme and stands for Tease Oracle Maintainers and Keep
: > > Your Testifiers Excited!
: > >
: > > NO. Just kidding. I love what I saw on the asktom-site and never saw
: > > "he" was wrong for my personal problems and helps me a lot and saved
: > > much time. But IM(H)O I don't believe there is just one person behind
: > > this giant knowledge.
: > >
: > > Since this is my first posting to this group I have to appologize: I
: > > started with Access, went to M$ SQL-Server some years ago and now I'm
: > > satisfied to know working on a really, well featured RDBMS.
: > >
: > > Greetings,
: > >
: > > Oliver
: > >
: > > PS: Don't take me too serious :-) - this time
: > >
: > > Funky Tuba wrote:
: > > > So... is there an official (or unofficial) Tom Kyte Fan Club? Anyone
: > > > interested?
: > > >
: >
: > I've met Tom, and trust me, he is one person. He does have the technical
: > resources of the Oracle Corporation at his disposal, so, if he doesn't know
: > the answer to a question, he can call any number of people to find out. In
: > that sense, there is more than one person behind the answers.

: And I'm pretty careful to point out when I put up something that is : not my original material.

: The answer will have something like:

: "I asked Sean Dillon our resident XML technologist..."
: "I asked Tyler Muth our resident HTMLDB expert ..."
: "I asked Joel Kallman, our resident Text expert..."
: "I asked <David Knox, Mark Piermarini, whomever....> "
: and they said.........

: So, unless the answer references a metalink note, or has the caveat : that "I asked...", it did come from me.

...speaking of Tom, looks who's here...

I'm not into fan clubs, but I thought "grow up" was a bit rude. Those of us (like me) who have received useful answers from him are implicitly his fan club I dare say (and thanks for the answer, by the way). Received on Fri Nov 26 2004 - 13:16:00 CST