Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EC6D9FB8A6 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:28:28 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25753-03 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:28:19 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from svr4.postgresql.org (svr4.postgresql.org [66.98.251.159]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B5B79FB7AC for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:28:24 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.3 Received: from vscan01.westnet.com.au (vscan01.westnet.com.au [203.10.1.131]) by svr4.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D713C5AF028 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 23:28:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10B527612BA for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 07:28:10 +0800 (WST) Received: from vscan01.westnet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vscan01.westnet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31340-03 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 07:28:10 +0800 (WST) Received: from mail.herakles.homelinux.org (dip-220-235-40-205.wa.westnet.com.au [220.235.40.205]) by vscan01.westnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473F37611D8 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 07:28:09 +0800 (WST) Received: from mail2.cds.merseine.nu (unknown [192.168.9.4]) by mail.herakles.homelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101E51EAAF for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 07:27:38 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.9.131] (Numbat.demo.lan [192.168.9.131]) by mail2.cds.merseine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA7D5CAC001 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 07:28:05 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <46883884.2050104@herakles.homelinux.org> Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:28:04 +0800 From: John Summerfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070620 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: yet another simple SQL question References: <467FFEF9.5050603@joshuaneil.com> <4680B4CB.1010404@herakles.homelinux.org> <200706261019.17026.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> <71E4A0E1-5FD5-4216-A75D-D66C059708B7@seespotcode.net> In-Reply-To: <71E4A0E1-5FD5-4216-A75D-D66C059708B7@seespotcode.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.136 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=BAYES_50=0.001, FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.135 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200707/3 X-Sequence-Number: 28738 Michael Glaesemann wrote: > > On Jun 26, 2007, at 2:19 , Achilleas Mantzios wrote: > >> ΣÏ?ιÏ? ΤÏ?ίÏ?η 26 Î?οÏ?νιοÏ? 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:-)