Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software
bchacc at san.rr.com
Tue Oct 11 15:34:50 CDT 2005
Hey, hey, hey, Frank. I didn't make any judgment about you. How could I? I don't understand what the heck you're talking about! Rocky ----- Original Message ----- From: <pctech at mybellybutton.com> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 8:38 AM Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Firewall > > Charlotte Foust <cfoust at infostatsystems.com> wrote on 10/11/2005, > 04:29:40 PM: >> Frank, >> >> If you want to hang out in this list, don't take everything so >> seriously. There is a lot of banter and horsing around, as well as >> serious discussion and help. Nobody is judging you based on your >> domain, but you must admit it's an amusing one. The mods of this list >> stamp out flames quite efficiently but you need to give as good as you >> get and in the same vein. Trust me, the discussions sometimes get VERY >> intense, but there is no personal animosity involved. Just don't expect >> anyone to take your advice as received truth, since developers as a >> group tend to have as many opinions as they have topics. >> >> Charlotte Foust >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 19:25 -0700, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software >> wrote: >> > How can we take someone seriously who wants to be known as belly >> > button? >> > >> > Rocky >> > >> >> >> I see. So, because my mail domain is mybellybutton.com I must be a >> complete idiot..... >> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > Actually, I have been on this list for about 4 or 5 years now. I mostly > lurk. Until a network/systems question comes up. Then I add my > educated input. > > I *DO* take it seriously when someone makes assumptions about me or > something I have said based on little or no information. That is > exactly what John C and Rocky did. Because I have a "humorous" mail > domain I must be an idiot. And because my document is 100 pages with > screen shots it must be too difficult to understand. 80% of the pages > of my document have screen shots. Of that 80% about 80% of those have > five or less lines of text. Of the remaining 20% about 5% of those > have a second screen shot on the page. In other words, without the > table of contents, cover pages, revision pages, and screen shots, my > document is less than 30 pages. As a reference, your average stereo > assembly instructions are between 5 and 50 pages depending on the > complexity of the equipment involved. Your average VCR manual is 60+ > pages. Yout average cell phone manual is also 60+ pages. > > Judging people, and things, without having all of the facts is one of my > pet peeves. > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >