Re: FW: Keyword on DSPF entry field

Thinks are sure starting to "HEAT" up around here!!!


On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:06:44 -0500
  "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com> wrote:
>> From: Wendy Thomas
>>
>> Joe, your post has drawn me out of the realm of the
>> "lurkers" and forced me to reply.  I've been reading
>>these
>> posts for several months now and have gleaned lots of
>> useful knowledge in the process.  I've been impressed
>>with
>> the way the bonafide and self-described experts respond
>>to
>> fellow developers questions and requests for help.  I
>>read
>> almost every post, even though I have over 25 years in
>> this business.  To read a comment like yours above makes
>> me wonder if help on this list is meant only for the
>> experienced, more cerebral developer types?  Where's an
>> "obvious newbie" supposed to learn, but from forums and
>> user groups and lists like these, where the voice of
>> experience can give that newbie the confidence to tackle
>> the next bigger problem?  You were that newbie once,
>> weren't you, Joe?  The tone of your comment incensed me,
>> and although I know you or anyone else on this list can
>> hit the Delete key and move onto posts more to your
>>higher
>> standards, I felt I needed to make my thoughts heard.
>
>Wendy, I think you misread my intentions.  Let me
>explain.
>
>I hope you notice that I didn't respond to Nelson until
>AFTER the second
>post, wherein he had chastised the list with his comment:
>"C'mon, guys.
>This is a real production problem we have, and I've had
>no responses."
>Before you take me to task, I suggest you go back through
>your history and
>find out exactly how many newbie posts I, Joe Pluta, have
>personally
>responded to.  You'll find dozens and dozens.
>
>In just the last few weeks, for example, I've answered
>what are pretty
>newbie-level questions on control breaks, "making
>programs dynamic", and
>journals.  And that's just on this list.
>
>Taking that into consideration, and putting aside your
>emotions, you might
>come to the common sense conclusion that I have nothing
>against newbie posts
>in general.
>
>Perhaps you might then take my comment about newbie posts
>in the spirit with
>which it was intended: sometimes we on the list don't
>have the time to
>immediately respond to every newbie post made.  I did not
>take exception to
>the fact that Nelson made a newbie post - heck, his was a
>rather erudite
>newbie post, if that's not too oxymoronic - but rather to
>his almost
>immediate repost not even 24 hours later with a tone that
>seemed to expect a
>reply.
>
>I understand and appreciate your fervor at defending the
>newbie ranks, and
>agree that I was one myself.  However, direct your ire at
>someone who
>doesn't spend nearly as much time as I do answering
>posts, and perhaps your
>time will be better spent.
>
>
>Joe
>
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