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Jason Bodnar (jcbodnar@mail.utexas.edu)
Fri, 03 Jan 1997 10:26:26 -0500 

Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970103152626.006ae448@mail.utexas.edu>
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 10:26:26 -0500
From: Jason Bodnar <jcbodnar@mail.utexas.edu>
Subject: [mSQL] List Etiquette

Just a couple of observations that might make this list a little more bearable.

1) Obviously theres some technical problems with the list that have popped
up over the last week. But, there's no need to clog up the list with
messages informing everybody of this. Instead of having 20 duplicate
messages, we end up with 30 - 20 duplicates and 10 from people complaining.
If it bothers you send a message to the originator of the duplicate and tell
them to contact the list owner.

2) Trim your quotes! Maybe it's just me, but it's getting awfully difficult
to wade through the extraneous garbage (sigs, footers about unsubscribing,
etc.) Take a minute to cut out any unnecessary info and give our eyes a break.

3) RTFM & RTFF. There are too many people asking questions that are answered
in the manual or FAQ (like how come there's no ALTER TABLE ... because mSQL
uses a subset of SQL).

Sorry for being a grinch, but this list is starting to become useless to me
and I have a feeling I'm not the only one.

Cheers,

Jason Bodnar
Internet Programmer
Cox Interactive Media
jasonb@onr.com

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