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<div>Nancy,</div>
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<div>While I've been a member of this list for a little less than your million years, I agree with everything you said. I'm also guilty of responding directly to someone with a question simply to stay out of the cross hairs of other responders. The recent
bubble sort fray was a perfect example. </div>
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<div>As we have all probably said to our kids at one point or another - let's just all try to get along. Life is too short for anything else. At 70, I understand this all too well. I've been developing programs in filePro since the Profile days but it seems
like just a little while ago. </div>
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<div>Thanks for your thoughts, </div>
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From: Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list <filepro-list@lists.celestial.com> <br>
Date: 06/03/2016 9:13 AM (GMT-06:00) <br>
To: filePro Mailing List <filepro-list@lists.celestial.com> <br>
Subject: filePro List Uses <br>
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<div class="PlainText">Gentlemen,<br>
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I just had time to read the last thread and enjoy the back and forth <br>
that has most of the members of the list lurking and laughing in the <br>
background.<br>
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I have been a member of this group for, what seems to be, a million <br>
years. I have seen flames thrown by the best. But it is true that the <br>
flames are totally burning out the few developers left in this <br>
community. I know people are now quick to vent every idea and emotion <br>
in writing, but if someone angers or offends please count to ten before <br>
you respond.<br>
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One comment said that instead of posting an answer to a question on the <br>
list, the poster now sends the answer directly to the questioner. I <br>
have seen this from a number of members in recent years. While this <br>
behavior certainly helps the poster, it decreases the value of the list <br>
because the other members never see the suggested solutions.<br>
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I would like everyone that still reads these posts, to agree that we are <br>
a dwindling group and should be more supportive in our efforts to work <br>
with filePro projects. Please be tolerant of the differences in <br>
personality and remember we programmers can be a lonely group and some <br>
venting and posturing is normal. Also remember the written word lacks <br>
tone and inflection, which makes it easy to misunderstand comments.<br>
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I noticed 3 postings for jobs recently. This is good for the community.<br>
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After all these years, I feel like I know each and every one of the <br>
people that post on this list. I have met many at the conferences. <br>
Let's not start bickering.<br>
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By the way, I loved the idea of posting tricks and solutions once a week <br>
to help other programmers. I did it for a while also years ago, but <br>
work got in the way. I was glad to see others pick up the idea and do <br>
it again. Lets try to build on that and post a trick or idea or feature <br>
that helped in some way, once in a while. It will certainly show the <br>
lurkers that there is still some meat on the bone with filePro development.<br>
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Your colleague,<br>
Nancy<br>
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Nancy Palmquist<br>
Owner<br>
Virtual Software Systems - <a href="http://www.vss3.com">www.vss3.com</a><br>
(412) 835-9417<br>
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