absolutely right buddy, youre absolutely right, lets be professional and
help each other the way we can.
karan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Lynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 12:45 AM
Subject: here we go again.
> OK, something that REALLY needs to be said here. I've been online for
> something like 10 years... now, that's longer than the internet in it's
> present form and I remember when email didn't even exist and how big a
> ddeal it was when you could finally message accross between AOL and
> Compuserve... point is, I've been on a lot of lists and message boards
> for a long time now. For any of you out there that think that this
> off-topic problem is new or exclusive to our list, it isn't, nor has it
> ever been... and ten years ago people talked about somehow fixing this
> problem and behold, here we are today still complaining. (And it's a
> good bet I'll still be writing these emails ten years from now).
>
> OK, so what have we established here. We've established that these long
> strings of emails further cluttering our mailboxes are ineffective in
> fixing the problem -- that isn't gonna change now, trust me on this.
> Your words from god aren't going to bless all of us and suddenly we'll
> all be enlightened... I tried it, never worked. So, what did I do? I
> stopped complaining until I come up with a plausible solution, then I'll
> voice it. If nothing else, I create less spam for people. I would like
> to remind everyone that ever word of code they right is dependent on
> hundreds of computer topics... netscape, explorer, all of the sub-lists
> of java, html, sometimes javascript, your server programs, the nitty
> grittyy of your computer, NT, Linux, Resin, etc... must I really go on?
> Do you really expect everyone to be on hundreds of these lists at the
> same time?
>
> Now, for those of you who don't believe me, I look forward to the day
> when your company hands you a set of software to debug that is written
> in 4 languages you don't know and has no documentation and is running on
> a server that you have never used which runs on a computer with an
> operating system you aren' familiar with and then you have two choices:
> 1) log onto all of these lists and get told how stupid you are for
> asking dumb questions or 2) ask on here and get told how stupid you are
> for asking on the wrong list.
>
> So please, lets be friendly here and civil and lets just try to answer
> what we can. I've always looked at lists as a bunch of people who work
> in the same field and may have info to share. After all, there is no
> list for what to do when your client decides to be an ass. Who do you
> ask then... or when you have to do something noone has ever done
> before... Well, you get my point, lets all just be professional web
> programmers and leave the egos at the desk.
>
> -Daniel
>
>
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