Re: How to determine database market share?

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Paul wrote:
> DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:
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> I would be particularly interested in the opinion of regular posters
> here. Mr Morgan is accusing me of using abusive/offensive language
> regularly - I disagree. I will try and take the contributions of
> regular and respected contributors into account.
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You must have a reading comprehension problem, as Daniel has not made such a sweeping comment regarding your language. He refers to this thread, and, so far, this thread only. Of course you're free to broaden your scope and interject such expletives in any subsequent posts you may make to any thread you like.

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> > > You may have noticed that *_in general_* and *_as a rule_* my posts to
> > > this group are not littered with expletives,
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> > Everyone, and I do mean everyone, seems to disagree.
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> Your definition of "everyone" is what, exactly? Are you assuming some
> sort of persona of "Le groupe, c'est moi"? If any other regular
> posters feel that I use excessive amounts of vulgar language, then
> please feel free to tell me.
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> As a forum, I find the comp.databases.oracle.**** hierarchy to have a
> very high signal to noise ratio, and, I believe, that I have respected
> that in not spamming and/or posting crude vulgar rants. If you
> disagree, please feel free to do so (pointing to posts where I have
> offended the community).
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> I would challenge you and/or anyone to show (m)any posts where I have
> used expletives regularly/excessively.
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> > > You know full-well that my posts are not littered with expletives
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> > Actually that is not at all the case nor is it the impression you have
> > created with all of the other regulars here.
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> "all of the other regulars here"? I couldn't give an exact count, but
> I would imagine that 90% of my posts contain no expletives at all,
> maybe 5-6% contain some sort of "potty-talk", but in a "good way" -
> i.e. the language used is appropriate to the tone of the post.
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> You have the right to argue that my question of how to measure db
> market share is impossible to answer, but coming out with a remark
> like "your life must be excessively boring" was nothing short of
> gratuitously insulting, and I responded with another gratuitous
> insult.
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You responded with abject vulgarity to a newsgroup frequented by professionals. Such was not professional behaviour, no matter how one chooses to defend such actions. In this thread you've used profanity quite freely and regularly; to me no such verbiage was necessary, execpt to indicate a lack of intelligent discourse on your part. People believe what they see, and what they see is what is currently before them, and, what is before them is a thread littered with profanity by your hand. It doesn't take much to shift an opinion from good to bad, and you have done a rousing job of providing evidence to back such a shift. Also, your whining defense of yourself in this post is irritating to say the least.

Drop the subject, and move on. I'm certain, from the tone of the other posts in this thread, that everyone wishes you would.

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> Respectfully.
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> Paul...
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David Fitzjarrell Received on Sun Oct 23 2005 - 15:45:02 CDT