zMan and Ian, Excellent , I totally agree as a working stiff at 62 .......
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Jan 21, 2013, at 1:43 PM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Ian <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Firstly, My condolences to the Mason family. >> >> In my opinion it is very bad taste to use a threat announcing the passing >> of a member of this list as a vehicle to parade ones mastery of several >> languages and chastise others in there lack of mastery in the use of >> language(s). >> >> None of us follows this list to get language lectures. This is IBM-Main a >> mainframe related discussion list made up of people from all walks of life >> and most of them do not have english as their first language. To make that >> assumption is arrogant and rude. > > > You are, of course, correct. > You are, of course, also bailing the ocean -- the pedants and troublemakers > on this list are beyond help.They often seem to want to provoke others, and > when challenged directly, step away. They're just trolls. > Some of them also whine occasionally about being unable to find work. There > couldn't possibly be a connection between their behavior and that problem, > of course... > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
