Filepro-list Digest, Vol 25, Issue 23

[Laura Brody]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:08:27 -0500, Bob Stockler <bob at trebor.iglou.com> wrote:

> Tyler wrote (on Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 08:51:23AM -0700):
>
> [snip]
> |
> | Why is it not rude for Laura to say "End of discussion. Consider yourself
> | corrected." but not me?
>
> Longtime correspondents to this mailing list have a heirarchy
> of posters and what they can post (without critism):
>
>   1 - Bill Campbell can post anything he wants to.

	Since the list exists at his pleasure, he can do
	and say anything. Very similar to "he who has the
	gold makes the rules."

>   2 - Ken Brody can post _almost_ anything he wants to.

	As the "horse's mouth" when it comes to filePro
	technical questions, you would be a fool to contradict
	or criticize what he has to say without trying it first.
       Asking why or how his solution works is ok and encouraged.

>   3 - Girls have more leeway than guys.

	Maybe that is so, but I would like to believe that
	the few women we have on this list really know their
	stuff. Computers are *still* a man's domain, so
	women have to be twice as good to be considered to
	be half as competent. Nancy is damn good and I'm
	no slouch either.

>   4 - People with an "attitude" go to the bottom of the list.

	Can you say ">/dev/nul"? I knew you could.

>   5 - People changing their "attitude" move up the list bit by bit.

	It took a while, but Fairlite went from "what a butthead"
	to "Gee, he has a point there. I didn't know that." for
	me, anyway.


	My only quibble is the omission of our informal "filePro
community of elders" -- people such as yourself who have been
around the block, have a few battle scars, really know your
stuff and answer many more questions than you ask. People like:
(in no particular order, and probably incomplete)

Yourself, Jim Asman, Howie Wolowitz, John Esak, JP Radley,
Bob Haussman, Nancy Palmquist, Joe Chasan, Bob Rasmussen,
Ken Brody and Ron Kracht (another filePro programmer).

	I have learned that when these people post an answer
to a question, you shouldn't argue, complain or second-guess
it -- you should just do it. If the question didn't omit some
key information, then the posted solution will be the end of
the problem and we can resume the current flame-tainted
thread du jour. <G>
-- 
Laura Brody
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