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[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

I submit that Mr DeBisschops reply was helpful, of an encouraging tone
and quite restrained in the circumstances (not to mention being
hilarious and quite a tonic).

The question warranted nothing more than STFW or STFFAQ (a search of the
Nag FAQs for SQL shows

http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=131
).

Providing an answer that is unlikely to change the lazy and selfish
attitude of a questioner is only counter productive: contributors
switch off, those that want to learn (who could have asked for a gentler
introduction to grep ?) learn nothing (although appreciators of English
prose will relish the replies of Messers Ghosh and DeBisschop) , and the
reputation of the project suffers.

I suggest that this is an unusually helpful and polite list. You can't
have much experience of flame should you think this list has seen much
if any.

There always expectations involved. Choose for yourself between the

. Windows Approach: the lu$er is an ass. Don't let them break anything.
Hide everything. Make it moron simple. Give them nothing. Make money by
publishing answers in 'zenes.

. Hacker approach. Publish a manifesto defending rudeness and then abuse
them

. The OpenSource/Nagios approach: encourage people to grow by sharing
something that is good and may make them happy. How they choose to use
that is up to them selves but remember, the provider is accountable and
responsible to no one. 

If you don't agree, your answers to questions like that posted are
welcome.

Yours sincerely.


-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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