William Hindman
wdhindman at bellsouth.net
Sat Mar 27 16:57:41 CST 2004
...a pointless argument in a pointless thread :)))))))))) William Hindman ipsedixitism: something is true because I myself have said it is true ...the philosophy of Noam Chomsky :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Bartow" <john at winhaven.net> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 5:47 PM Subject: RE: [AccessD] Lookup Fields in Table Design > Not IMO. But this is probably a topic for the OT list anyway - then William > can slam me too. (I think he's ignoring this thread now.) > ;o) > > I think as a civilized people we should expect politeness not reward it. > With a group of people whom we are familiar, we can dispense with some of > the more rigorous practices of being polite. But we should never be rude and > we should let it be known that we do not embrace rude behavior. > > OTH, reward and punishment for children should eventually lead them into > behaving as above. > > My minus points for rudeness are only to encourage the context of the dialog > being continued in a productive meaningful exchange of ideas. Sometimes > these little debate can turn ugly due to one comment being received by one > person who happens to be in the wrong state of mind. Since _I_ can't > actually make people stop participating in a email debate I try to encourage > them to check the derogatory or aggressive tones. > > I have had an eye opening experience with this particular debate. I may > actually try using this feature again. We'll see where it ends up. Maybe Dev > Ashish will join in here before its over. > > E-gads! I wrote "behaviour" and the spell check caught it. I catch myself > writing "grey" and "colour" a lot too. I'm melting... > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Susan Harkins > Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 4:16 PM > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' > Subject: RE: [AccessD] Lookup Fields in Table Design > > > OK, if they can't get points for politeness, they shouldn't lose points for > the lack of it. Right? > > Susan H. > > unnecessarily derogatory remark -.5 sayers > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >