Re: What gives?

In article <3lptlo$5dh@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com (Jack Parker) says: > > >Pholks, > >First of all allow me to apologize for a minor spam. I borrowed Harvey's >login to ask an RTFM and see what happened. You may recall the question was >something like 'can I run isql forms and reports from the command line'. If >I had asked that question 2 years ago I would have been bombarded with 40-50 >answers. To date there have been 4 answers to Harveys' question, two of which >involve 'sacego/sperform'. > You're right Jack--I posted the wrong answer in an overzealous attempt to help out. The format of a newsgroup, while technologically fast, isn't as fast as the spoken word, and I couldn't immediately respond with "OOPS!". A similar posting caught my eye and got me all bamboozeled. :-) >I asked the question to confirm a sneaking suspicion I had that net answership >has declined over the past whatever. Might I ask why? Have we gotten better >in terms of recognizing when a quesstion is so easy that everybody is going >to answer? Have we become dulled to the amount of mail that comes across? >Have we become scared to answer questions for fear that we might be wrong? >Have we all gone so far into the stratosphere with our topics that simple >everyday questions like this are meaningless? Have we lost readership due >to the number of job postings? Has Informix become such a little-used >product that there aren't that many of us left? > I agree with you on the low number of responses to questions. I wish I knew more to provide better answers. A lot of the questions refer to data base tuning and admin, which is extremely cryptic,complicated, and not my specialty. I am answering more and more because I too see less and less responses. It's like, "OK, nobody else is going to answer or comment, why not give it a shot." . I get to improve my writing skills on a world-wide basis too. Sometimes I defer from commenting so that I don't feel like I'm the only one commenting in a lot of different topics. But lately I've just said what the heck and let 'er rip. If I'm wrong I get lots of email to straighten me out. \\\\|// (o o) ==============================---o00--(_)--00o---============================ Tim Schaefer tschaefe@gate.net The Computer Business Company, Inc. http://www.gate.net/~tschaefe Coconut Creek, FL, USA INX_UTIL Tool Kit is now shareware Ub...eh...Now, see, who gets to ask the questions here? --Ross Perot =============================================================================