Bryan Carbonnell
carbonnb at gmail.com
Sat Aug 11 21:59:06 CDT 2007
On 8/11/07, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > And the bottom line is that is a valid choice. If the person is not It certainly is. So is drinking yourself to death. But both are, IMO, poor choices to finding solutions to problems. > important to you why in the world would you even read their email WITHOUT a > CR required? Because if I'm running a business I do not want my customers to jump through hoops to deal with me. And if it is personal e-mail, I don't want my friend to have to jump through hoops to talk to me. > If the person you are calling wants you to do something to > help him control the flood and you don't really care about talking to him, > then don't talk to him. CR is all about "I need help here and if I am > important enough to talk to, please help me out here. What about the people that ask for help and have a CR system in place. They send me a request for help and I reply and they haven't bothered to whitelist me? Why should *I* jump through hoops to answer *THEIR* question *THEY ASKED ME*? > When I was growing up, my grandfather needed to put stucco on the outside of > his barn. The whole community showed up to help. I would help my neighbour out in a heart beat if they needed me. > Now you won't even take 10 seconds to respond to a CR. Nope. IMO, its the wrong fix for a problem. Just like I wouldn't restucco an entire barn if only one wall needed restuccoing. > Just goes to show how much community is > worth to us these days eh? I have been a contributing member of this > community for 10 years and you would think I had raped your daughter by the > response when a CR request shows up in your inbox. Pretty sad really. It's no worse than some of the comments that have passed back and forth about bound/unbound, Natural/Surrogate PKs, etc, etc. -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a great ride!"