Ron Coderre said:
Here's a thought:
Open an Excel versus Access thread. Then all interested parties can debate
while the rest of the forum goes on about their business. The current
process keeps throwing the equivalent of spam into too many threads.
You can't open that thread yourself?
While I regret Aaron replying to messages in this ng rather unhelpfully by
recommending that OPs switch to Access in particular or some dbms generally,
he is free to do so. When I choose to respond, I'm free to do so. When
others despair of the two of us, they're free to add us to their kill files
and/or blocked senders lists, or block threads that have become
reciprocating rants.
Freedom is a horrible thing. It allows other people to do what we'd prefer
they don't do. Nasty thing about that is that they think the same about us.
Manners have a place in all of this. If you believe some are unmannerly, you
have the tools to avoid them (if you're using a real newsreader) in a manner
similar to how each of us avoids people we don't want to associate with in
the real world.
So, personally, while I disagree with much of what Aaron writes, I'd prefer
to defend his right to state it willy-nilly in this ng than support your
call to restrict discussion into a ng ghetto.
