Evaluating opinions

[Bob Stockler]

Top Post . . .

It's easy (at least on my email reader) just to type D
and go on to the next message.  If it's not of interest,
D is available again.  

Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Bob

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:25:57PM -0500, Ray Scheel wrote:
| 
| Would it be possible to set up a separate list called
| flame-fpusers at lists.celestial.com so this list could at least maintain an
| illusion of being about *professional* issues encountered by filePro users
| and developers?  
| 
| I can vouch that the conduct I see here on a regular basis has led several
| fP developers I know to only subscribe to the list long enough to get a
| question answered before unsubscribing again in an effort to avoid having to
| sift through the weekly "let's flame each other" threads, and over the past
| few weeks I've noticed an increase in the number of threads that drift into
| playground arguments to the point I'm about ready to do the same thing.  
| 
| Likewise, if someone is subscribing to evaluate the credibility of fP's
| claims as being a credible contender in today's IT world, the exchanges that
| flare up here on a weekly basis would almost certainly scare them off.  How
| many of you would invest in a new-to-you technology who's main end users
| spent about 1/4 of their time calling each other names and trying to one-up
| each other?
| 
| Frankly, I can't see how people who are heavily tied to fP as their primary
| means of financial support find it productive to regularly nitpick and flame
| each other over clear and long-standing issues that are holding this
| platform back.  About the only regular poster to this list with a reason to
| take personal offense to a criticism of fP's features is Ken, yet AFAICT, he
| never starts the flame sessions.  
| 
| I've still got many years of maintaining fP applications ahead of me, and
| this is one of the few resources available (and the only place to get a
| quick suggestion for workarounds to the outstanding problems and weird
| behaviors).  I've unsubbed before to avoid this during a time where I worked
| with fP less than I have been lately, but I'm about ready to again even
| though an answer I got here recently saved me another day of frustration and
| I frequently read things that clarify points I've long been confused about.
| 
| Ray Scheel               ray.scheel at wsdtx.org 
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