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Jaan Rett (rett@lims.lockheed.com)
Fri, 03 Jan 1997 18:20:02 -0800 

Message-Id: <9701040121.AA26451@brahms.lisc.lims.lockheed.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 18:20:02 -0800
From: Jaan Rett <rett@lims.lockheed.com>
Subject: Re: [mSQL] List Etiquette

You know, everybody has an opinion. In my opinion, your
complaint is hypocritical.

Jaan Rett

At 10:26 AM 1/3/97 -0500, you wrote:
>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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