Mark, Don't Aussies always read bottom up?
Jim On Aug 24, 2011, at 14:55, "Mark Hogden" <[email protected]> wrote: > If I had bothered to read this all the way to the bottom I would have wasted > more time than I spent all last year filtering T24 crap(jimi will no doubt > attribute this to my antipodean education and not the length of the post), > and if I added in the time spent lurking in CDP well... > > As the poster implied, it's folks who don't know a correlative from a > coconut that probably stand to benefit most from this kind of hybrid group, > and they probably represent the majority of jBase seats, so WTF. And who > knows, maybe if we were nice to them they might consider another jBase > solution at some point in their bright futures. > > Now if only someone would start a top posting vs bottom posting, newsreader > shootout thread, and then cross post it, I could avoid work altogether. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Tony Gravagno > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 2:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: RE: Getting back to a true jBASE forum > > From: Nguyen Trong Dai >> Because T24 and Jbase have strong relationship, I think in many case >> we can not know exactly what is Jbase, what is T24... > > If a person can't tell the difference between the database and their > business application then they probably aren't the right person to be > posting to a forum on behalf of their employer. > > The question to ask yourself is "would my question apply to anyone with this > DBMS, or does it only apply to banks with this specific software?". The > question "During the replication of the two servers which mode is best > supported by jbase? " is a DBMS question, not to be prefaced with "T24". A > question like "is there a menu option to turn on replication" is a T24 > question. A borderline case might be "my custom BASIC code failed to update > a file in a subroutine call, and I don't know if the application restricted > the update or if the DBMS did". > > When in doubt, post to the T24 forum and you will either get a response > there, or someone will suggest you post to the DBMS forum. That's not too > tough is it? This happens every day in other forums. > > The alternative is that the entire jBase membership gets an enquiry that has > nothing to do with jBase - I think this actually hurts the jBase community, > giving people the impression that jBase is now nothing more than a subset of > T24. This forum has > 1927 subscriptions of which "some percentage" does not use T24, and this has > been going on for 6 years. Non-T24 people don't burden the group with their > application-related questions like "how do I run period end close", they > take those questions elsewhere. Bank IT people should be as considerate. > > Is that unreasonable or too difficult? > > >> , so I agree with Jim: "I think that that is the end of the group; I >> always resisted this move." > > Like I said, if that's the end of the jBase group, then it is what it is. > It's up to jBase people to keep their group alive for their own reasons. If > T24 is the only thing keeping this group alive then it was dead a long time > ago and people need to start thinking about how to address that problem on > its own. > > Tony Gravagno > Nebula Research and Development > TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com > Nebula R&D sells mv.NET and other Pick/MultiValue products worldwide, and > provides related development services remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog Visit > PickWiki.com! Contribute! > http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno > > > > > -- > Please read the posting guidelines at: > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines > > IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific > to Globus/T24 > > To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en > > -- > Please read the posting guidelines at: > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines > > IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific > to Globus/T24 > > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en -- Please read the posting guidelines at: http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific to Globus/T24 To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en
