RE: News Group vs Email Responses (was Re: DESC TABLE <table> doe
Yeeps!!!! When did Informix go out of business? -----Original Message----- From: Data Goob [mailto:datagoob@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 6:31 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: News Group vs Email Responses (was Re: DESC TABLE <table> does seem to word with ODBC) Jonathan, Your reply as well as the rest of the arroganti here in c.d.i is the height of some of the worst attitude I think I've ever seen here. As much as I respect the technical excellence of you and some of the people here, to even suggest that it is too much to spend a few extra keyclicks on an email address really shows bad form. You would be better to have never taken a position that suggests such arrogance. Same for the rest of you, you're sounding a little too high and mighty to argue such a petty point. Arrogance is what put Informix out of business in the first place, do all yourselves a favor and leave it in Menlo Park. Shame on all of you. "Jonathan Leffler" <jleffler@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:u%Qac.10277$Dv2.5165@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net... > Paul Watson wrote: > > Speaking only for myself, in most cases I would not reply to the NG > > > > Nebojsa Sevo wrote: > > > >> I am not expecting answer via e-mail. I am looking for answer on > >> NG. Does it mean that you will not send the answer to NG, too? > >> > >>On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:19:53 +0100, Paul Watson <paul@oninit.com> > >>wrote: > >>>Some of us won't respond to an request from an 'no spam' account, > >>>you ask for help and don't give me an account to respond to!! > >>> > >>>Nebojsa Sevo wrote: > >>>>>"Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> a 'crit: > >>>>>> PS - While I appreciate the reasons, most folk will not send > >>>>>> you a reply if you use a no-spam address. > >>>> > >>>>What is so bad in using "no-spam" block? > >>>>I have a lot of problems when I open my e-mail adress in NG. > > Everybody needs to remember that about half (give or take 25%) of the > readership of this news group receives the messages by email, courtesy > of a bi-directional email-news bridge run by the Informix > International User Group. The people who read messages by email tend > to think in terms of email answers - and get stroppy when they can't > just reply to the person asking the question. The people who read the > messages via a regular NNTP news feed don't get so worried about it. > > Both systems have their merits and demerits. Spam blocking email > addresses are legitimate as a defense measure (not that I bother - but > the Swen virus is still a nuisance, albeit one that has subsided a lot > since its release back in September, or thereabouts). But people who > use spam-blocked email addresses have to expect that they won't get > answers from some people who might otherwise help. > > FWIW, if I think a question needs a private response but the reply > email is spam-blocked, I don't usually respond. If I'm willing to > give a public reply, no problem. Sorry - that's life; I have better > things to do than reverse spam-blocking. (Spam-blocked emails sent > direct to me go straight to /dev/null!) > > -- > Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> > Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com > Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/ > sending to informix-list