Re: Reply to List? Sender?, Part 27 (Finally: THE FLAME)

HERE HERE "voting item "z": KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)"

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> Hi Patrick and other Netizens,
>
> RE:
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> > Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 16:30:50 -0400
> > Reply-To: "ORACLE database mailing list." <ORACLE-L_at_CCVM.sunysb.edu>
> > Sender: "ORACLE database mailing list." <ORACLE-L@CCVM.sunysb.edu>
> > From: Patrick Hoepfner <hoepfner_at_HAITI.GSFC.NASA.GOV>
> > Subject: Re: Reply to List? Sender?
> > X-To: ORACLE-L_at_CCVM.sunysb.edu
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 <ORACLE-L_at_CCVM.sunysb.edu>
> > X-PMFLAGS: 34603136
> >
> > Since the concept of what a summary is seems to be a unknown to some, I
> > thought I would summarize the replied to the voting for the fun if it. My
> > comments are in the square brackets [ ... ]
> >
>
> [[[[ *FLAME ON* ]]]]
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> I looked up "summary" in my pocket Oxford American Dictionary:
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> noun: "a statement giving the main points of something briefly"
>
> Your useage of the word is obviously different from the common one.
>
> My vote for Status Quo (I'm not fom Chicago, but I _was_ born in Texas):
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> zxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxz
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> voting item "z": KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)
>
> and:
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> voting item "x": Don't Fix It If It Ain't Broke.
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> Since this discussion group is a public forum, requiring a complicated
> reply protocol is going to scare off participants. That concern along
> with my perception of snideness in some of your comments makes me wonder
> what sort of elitist agenda you are pushing with this (IMHO) NON-Issue?
>
> During part of my wasted youth, I spent a summer laying water pipe in
> the desert of southern Utah. An old Okie told me that I didn't need to
> "dig for pretty" because a trench is a trench. Other than aesthetics,
> what does this stuff have to do with anything for the vast majority of
> the list members?
>
> Making the group suffer through more of this stuff just so you can
> save a few keystrokes (opening the headers, scribbling an email
> address) while doing email replies seems silly.
>
> [[[[ *FLAME OFF* ]]]]
>
> Sorry if I have not perceived your intentions or the issue correctly.
>
> I look forward to seeing your contributions on this list about other
> technical subjects.
>
> BXR
>
> !!!
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