Re: You think you have it bad

I remember that period of time clearly, but I think it may have been a year
or two longer than the 3-4.

What I don't remember is anyone from Borland being in the MS.vb newsgroups.
There could have been, but I really don't remember that and I think I would
have.

I did see a number of vocal trolls, and all they did was pixx folks off.
There was nearly no useful information in their posts, but lots of useless
noise. Then there was the loud noise of the responses. It left a very
negative impression on everyone.

I don't recommend it.

Someone who participates in both fora can do a good job of answering
questions and educating folks. Evangelism in the wrong context isn't a
GoodThing.

Dan
MS VB MVP 1993-2001




"Angra Mainyu" <angra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:42e65e19$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> "Nick Hodges [TeamB]" wrote
>> Mike Vance wrote:
>>
>> > I can post a message in the MS forums talking about
>> > the virtues of Delphi, and still not be accused of being a troll.
>>
>> Not in the VB groups, you can't.
>
> I don't make a habit of surfing the Microsoft VB groups but do remember
> circa
> 3-4 years ago (I think at time of Delphi-6 release) that for a short time
> both
> Anders Ohlsson and John Kaster were encouraging folks to visit the VB
> groups and
> extol the virtues of Delphi-6 especially that Borland had released a
> toolset
> that supported the new MS Web Service protocols before Microsoft had
> released
> their own toolset. Out of curiosity I visited one of the MS VB groups and
> found
> several messages from Anders and at least one from John. Usually no one
> responded but at least on one occasion a Microsoft guy responded by saying
> that
> the ng was intended for professionals and asked that they not post any
> more
> messages. IIRC he did refer to the messages as trolls so yes you are
> correct.
> What amazed me was that Anders and John left the (Borland) tag in their
> signatures. :-0
>
>
>
>


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