Another oracle resource goes down the drain

I was not overly active on this forum, traditionally I was more active on the oracle list (oracle-l_at_freelists.org). Recently, however, oracle-l was swamped by the people who thought it to be either a free online manual or an ego boosting tool. Steve Adams, who some might remember as a writer of on Oracle 8i internals book long time ago allowed that to become extremely boring place on which political correctness is more important then oracle. He wrote me, the following:
"Hi Mladen,

I regard your response to Mark Brady to be a flame, unprofessional and offensive. I have therefore suspended your posting privilege. I had not yet seen that when I sent the previous note.

Yes it is right to contradict obviously incorrect and harmful advice, but you will need to learn to do so without making personal remarks.

Regarding the migratepv question, it was clearly not a joke. The author is clueless and needs help. Your having fun at his expense does not qualify as help. It is just offensive."

Mark Brady is an idiot who advised a guy complaining about a problem with
"re-creating temporary table within PL/SQL procedure" to create a DDL
trigger. Now, we have all seen a lot of guys trying to make Oracle behave like SQL server and the only real advice is to re-engineer the application. I asked Brady why does he feel qualified to dispense advice when he obviously knows not what he's doing and that has earned me a suspension from the list.

The list is obsolete, the stars of the list, like Jonathan Lewis and Kevin Closson haven't been seen there for a long time, now spending the majority of the time on their own blogs. In the era of blogs, oracle-l became obsolete and unnecessary, just like Steve's book or his Ixora site, still mostly about 8i. The line was crossed when he sided with the guy who has obviously dispensed an incorrect advice in the name of political correctness.

The list was obsoleted by blogs of the main contributors and Steve was obsoleted by life. That is not only a sad end of a once great resource, it is also a sad end of a once good oracle professional who turned into a patronizing prick of a "moral majority" type. He doesn't do any notable Oracle work any more, his site and his book are obsolete, but he does enforce his understanding of good behavior. BTW, for all those interested, the "migratepv" guy had a question "has anyone used migratepv to migrate things outside of oracle". Migratepv is an AIX LVM command which migrates physical volume to another destination(s), very useful when migrating things to another place within SAN or to another SAN. My reply was "what is outside oracle" and "are we alone"?
For better or for worse, I've finally had it with the oracle-l, the list which prefers political correctness over interesting technology and I will now mostly reside on this forum.

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