Re: PEAR DB 1.6.0 has been released

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Jack Parker - 21 Feb 2004 03:21 GMT

I don't know pear from apples, but the fellow appears to be making an
announcement of open source software which may be of interest to this group.

Pray tell, what are you doing here? c.d.o. too dull with everybody
migrating off?

cheers
j.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan@x.washington.edu>
To: <informix-list@iiug.org>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: PEAR DB 1.6.0 has been released

> Analysis&Solutions wrote:
>
> > Crack open the beer,
>
> How often do we get the chance to be spammed by someone too rude
> to read the FAQ, to lacking in respect to post in the appropriate
> usenet group, or more deserving of being ignored.
>
> Yeah ... lets celebrate a spammer trying to sell is stuff. This
> must be an internet first.
>
> When you get done being giddy try apologizing. I hope everyone
> ignores your post and treats you with all the respect you have
> earned.

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Jack Parker - 28 Feb 2004 14:15 GMT

If somebody posts a url they're inviting you to be 'trapped' like a rabbit?
Excuse me?

There are plenty of communal websites we all visit from time to time when
looking for nuggets. The goal is not to cr*p up the newsgroup with thousand
line applicable posts when only 5 people care - in those cases we put
whatever it is on a website and invite the audience to visit if they care
about it. This is hardly 'trapping' you or anyone else. The websites I put
stuff on are the iiug wite and the artentech site, occasionally I write an
article of interest and IBM puts it on the developer zone webpage. When I
refer to those articles, I always post the web address of the article in
question. I can't speak for IBM, and I no longer put stuff on iiug because
I can't speak for them either, but I can speak for artentech - there is
nothing on that website to 'trap' you. If you have no interest in the topic
in question then fine, don't visit. If you want to browse that page and not
visit the rest of the site - fine, go for it, there are no navigational
nightmares, no registration hassles, no cookies - nada. I fail to see how
this 'traps' anyone

You suggest that we change our .sigs to not include websites of potential
interest? Which define some aspect of who we are and what we do? How
silly. Better take your name, email address and job description off your
posts as well. How am I to seek wisdom at the feet of Daniel Morgan without
noting the invitation to take the courses that he teaches?

toodles
j.

----- Original Message -----
From: <sybrandb@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: PEAR DB 1.6.0 has been released

> Galen Boyer <galenboyer@hotpop.com> wrote in message

news:<uwu69g7c4.fsf@standardandpoors.com>...

> > > All SPAM is bad spam. I don't care if you are giving it away
> > > for free. I don't care if you personally show up, install it,
[quoted text clipped - 33 lines]
> Sybrand Bakker
> Senior Oracle DBA

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