Re: [SQL] yet another simple SQL question

2007-07-01 Thread John Summerfield 

Michael Glaesemann wrote:


On Jun 26, 2007, at 2:19 , Achilleas Mantzios wrote:

ΣÏ?ιÏ? ΀Ï?ίÏ?η 26 Î?οÏ?ΜιοÏ? 2007 09:40, ο/η John 
Summerfield έγÏ?αÏ?ε:


Subjects such as yours don't cut the mustard. Try to summarise your
problem; if I'm interested in the problem then I will read it and
(maybe) help.

When I find it's cross-posted, I'm likely to change my mind.


Why do you think that criticizing was better than staying silent?
Anyway, Joshua already took some very enlightening answers enuf to get 
him

going.


While self-admittedly grumpy, I believe John was trying to encourage 
better posting behavior from Joshua which will benefit him by receiving 
more answers. If John had remained silent (as I'm sure others who share 
his sentiment have), being (apparently) new, Joshua probably wouldn't 
know he's potentially limiting the number of answers he'd receive. 
Perhaps John could have phrased his email differently, but I think he 
was trying to help Joshua.


Michael Glaesemann


Thanks Man of Good Sense.


Andrej:
I don't post links; I often find them unhelpful because I can't read 
them at the time I'm reading email.


esr's article contains good advice, but there's room for argument on 
some of his points. Probably, not everyone will agree with me on Which_ 
points:-)



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Re: [SQL] yet another simple SQL question

2007-07-01 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay 

On 7/2/07, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Andrej:
I don't post links; I often find them unhelpful because I can't read
them at the time I'm reading email.

esr's article contains good advice, but there's room for argument on
some of his points. Probably, not everyone will agree with me on Which_
points:-)

I guess that's quite likely ... after all, there's humans who aren't ESR
reading ;} involved ... I, too, think that a few points might need alteration,
but over all I think it's quite valid; and it definitely offers some food for
thought, and I believe it nudges people into the direction of at least
AWARENESS of netiquette on varied lists.


Cheers,
Andrej


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