filePro List Uses

[Nancy Palmquist]

Gentlemen,

I just had time to read the last thread and enjoy the back and forth 
that has most of the members of the list lurking and laughing in the 
background.

I have been a member of this group for, what seems to be, a million 
years.  I have seen flames thrown by the best.  But it is true that the 
flames are totally burning out the few developers left in this 
community.  I know people are now quick to vent every idea and emotion 
in writing, but if someone angers or offends please count to ten before 
you respond.

One comment said that instead of posting an answer to a question on the 
list, the poster now sends the answer directly to the questioner.  I 
have seen this from a number of members in recent years.  While this 
behavior certainly helps the poster, it decreases the value of the list 
because the other members never see the suggested solutions.

I would like everyone that still reads these posts, to agree that we are 
a dwindling group and should be more supportive in our efforts to work 
with filePro projects.  Please be tolerant of the differences in 
personality and remember we programmers can be a lonely group and some 
venting and posturing is normal.  Also remember the written word lacks 
tone and inflection, which makes it easy to misunderstand comments.

I noticed 3 postings for jobs recently.  This is good for the community.

After all these years, I feel like I know each and every one of the 
people that post on this list.  I have met many at the conferences. 
Let's not start bickering.

By the way, I loved the idea of posting tricks and solutions once a week 
to help other programmers.  I did it for a while also years ago, but 
work got in the way.  I was glad to see others pick up the idea and do 
it again.  Lets try to build on that and post a trick or idea or feature 
that helped in some way, once in a while.  It will certainly show the 
lurkers that there is still some meat on the bone with filePro development.

Your colleague,
Nancy

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Nancy Palmquist
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