Re: yet another simple SQL question

Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>
> On Jun 26, 2007, at 2:19 , Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
>
>> ΣÏ?ιÏ? ΀Ï?ίÏ?η 26 Î?οÏ?ΜιοÏ? 2007 09:40, ο/η John
>> Summerfield έγÏ?αÏ?ε:
>>>
>>> Subjects such as yours don't cut the mustard. Try to summarise your
>>> problem; if I'm interested in the problem then I will read it and
>>> (maybe) help.
>>>
>>> When I find it's cross-posted, I'm likely to change my mind.
>>
>> Why do you think that criticizing was better than staying silent?
>> Anyway, Joshua already took some very enlightening answers enuf to get
>> him
>> going.
>
> While self-admittedly grumpy, I believe John was trying to encourage
> better posting behavior from Joshua which will benefit him by receiving
> more answers. If John had remained silent (as I'm sure others who share
> his sentiment have), being (apparently) new, Joshua probably wouldn't
> know he's potentially limiting the number of answers he'd receive.
> Perhaps John could have phrased his email differently, but I think he
> was trying to help Joshua.
>
> Michael Glaesemann

Thanks Man of Good Sense.

Andrej:
I don't post links; I often find them unhelpful because I can't read
them at the time I'm reading email.

esr's article contains good advice, but there's room for argument on
some of his points. Probably, not everyone will agree with me on Which_
points:-)