Call for New Group
Rob Wilson posted a joke call for votes to create a newsgroup named for Art S. Kagel, since many questions were addressed to him. Thomas Parsli joked back about Informix marketing. Rob admitted the humor backfired and that questions should not go to one person. Art thanked everyone, said he enjoys helping, and asked them to drop the idea. No real proposal resulted.
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Call for discussion for creating a newsgroup "comp.databases.informix.art-s-kagel". Charter of group: Since most of the questions are already addressed to Him, why not? Voting: Voting will be in a two week period from the 24th of Sept. to 8th of Oct. During this period, please email your votes to kagel@bloomberg.net, with a subject line containing either "yes" or "no". Any duplicate or amibiguous votes, or votes received outside this period, will be discarded. NOTE: Sorry Art if people actually flood your mailbox. :) -- Rob Wilson rwilson@ntsource.com
rwilson@ntsource.com (Rob Wilson) writes: > Call for discussion for creating a newsgroup > "comp.databases.informix.art-s-kagel". Let's call it comp.databases.art-s-kagel > Charter of group: > Since most of the questions are already addressed to Him, why not? Since Art does more for Informix than their marketing dep. he should have his own group. > Voting: > Voting will be in a two week period from the 24th of Sept. to 8th of > Oct. During this period, please email your votes to kagel@bloomberg.net, > with a subject line containing either "yes" or "no". Any duplicate or > amibiguous votes, or votes received outside this period, will be > discarded. Mail should be sent to support@informix.com marketing@informix.com and sales@informix.com with the subject "Hello?". All votes will be discarded. > NOTE: > Sorry Art if people actually flood your mailbox. Oh, I bet they already do:) Thomas (I actually saw an informix ad on CNN last week, so I guess there's at least one person in marketing)
Thomas Parsli (thomas.parsli@ose.no) wrote: : (I actually saw an informix ad on CNN last week, so I guess there's at : least one person in marketing) I understand this was actualy in the contract Informix has with CNN, so I don't know if marketing was involved (other than maybe making the commercial; I was thoroughly unimpressed with it, however). -- Rob Wilson rwilson@ntsource.com
My (apparently poorly thought-out) attempt at humor seems to have backfired. I was mostly just trying to indicate that this is indeed a newsgroup and questions should not be directed at one person (although I have benefitted from many of Art's postings). This seems to be the same feeling as everyone replying to this post. Rob Wilson (rwilson@ntsource.com) wrote: : Call for discussion for creating a newsgroup : "comp.databases.informix.art-s-kagel". : Charter of group: : Since most of the questions are already addressed to Him, why not? : Voting: : Voting will be in a two week period from the 24th of Sept. to 8th of : Oct. During this period, please email your votes to kagel@bloomberg.net, : with a subject line containing either "yes" or "no". Any duplicate or : amibiguous votes, or votes received outside this period, will be : discarded. : NOTE: : Sorry Art if people actually flood your mailbox. : : :) : -- : Rob Wilson : rwilson@ntsource.com -- Rob Wilson rwilson@ntsource.com
Funny Rob, guys, funny. ;-) OK my mail filter is now set to reject anything containing databases and kagel in the same string. Fire away. :-) Thanks for the recognition folk. I have to admit though that I have very selfish reasons for participating here so actively. I enjoy it! I like helping and sharing. I started because I wanted to get a better handle on bugs and problems, maybe learn a thing or three about tuning this beast called IDS from such luminaries as John Miller III and Jonathan Leffler and everyone else, and I got hooked. This participation gets me through my day while I watch my 16 IDS engines chug away, yaaaawwwnnnnn. Anyway, I'm not a Q, nor even a Metron or Organian, I miss some, blow others and plain don't know a goodly number of answers. So CDI is still the best place to go. Learn as I did, by sharing and paying attention. Now no more of this new newsgroup stuff. Please? Art S. Kagel Rob Wilson wrote: > > Call for discussion for creating a newsgroup > "comp.databases.informix.art-s-kagel". > > Charter of group: > Since most of the questions are already addressed to Him, why not? > > Voting: > Voting will be in a two week period from the 24th of Sept. to 8th of > Oct. During this period, please email your votes to kagel@bloomberg.net, > with a subject line containing either "yes" or "no". Any duplicate or > amibiguous votes, or votes received outside this period, will be > discarded. > > NOTE: > Sorry Art if people actually flood your mailbox. > > :) > > -- > Rob Wilson > rwilson@ntsource.com
In article <37E9203E.975467B6@bloomberg.net>, Art S. Kagel <kagel@bloomberg.net> writes >Funny Rob, guys, funny. ;-) > >OK my mail filter is now set to reject anything containing databases and >kagel in the same string. Fire away. :-) > >Thanks for the recognition folk. I have to admit though that I have very >selfish reasons for participating here so actively. I enjoy it! I like >helping and sharing. I started because I wanted to get a better handle on >bugs and problems, maybe learn a thing or three about tuning this beast >called IDS from such luminaries as John Miller III and Jonathan Leffler >and everyone else, and I got hooked. This participation gets me through >my day while I watch my 16 IDS engines chug away, yaaaawwwnnnnn. > >Anyway, I'm not a Q, nor even a Metron or Organian, I miss some, blow >others and plain don't know a goodly number of answers. So CDI is still >the best place to go. Learn as I did, by sharing and paying attention. > >Now no more of this new newsgroup stuff. Please? > Any questions Art? , I now have a sun box to play with and will be getting 7.31 soon... >Art S. Kagel > >Rob Wilson wrote: >> >> Call for discussion for creating a newsgroup >> "comp.databases.informix.art-s-kagel". >> >> Charter of group: >> Since most of the questions are already addressed to Him, why not? >> >> Voting: >> Voting will be in a two week period from the 24th of Sept. to 8th of >> Oct. During this period, please email your votes to kagel@bloomberg.net, >> with a subject line containing either "yes" or "no". Any duplicate or >> amibiguous votes, or votes received outside this period, will be >> discarded. >> >> NOTE: >> Sorry Art if people actually flood your mailbox. >> >> :) >> >> -- >> Rob Wilson >> rwilson@ntsource.com -- David Williams