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[C Day]

Nancy, you are spot on!

Some list members have always had a disease called "Sheldon Syndrome".  
So, we dummies just stand back, laugh and press Delete.

Charlie Day (the original, not the one on TV)


On 6/3/2016 10:12 AM, Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list wrote:
> 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
>