Re: (Fwd) DBI's method for reading [row x,field y]

Bob Hunter wrote:
The list is dead. Forwarding the message to the list
is like dropping it in the bin. If you do not care
meeting user's problems, then why should I care using
DBI in the first place? I have your book, it is
verbose, but it does not answer to key questions.
Either you write a better book, or start changing
attitude with mails. After all, you do get royalties
from the book, don't you? So, you are paid, in a
sense, to answer to questions about the book itself.

Bob

Bob, please simmer down and give some credit to both Tim and this list. The list is not dead, it is very active and includes hundreds of DBI users and developers. Your reasoning about Tim's pay is quite faulty, he has put in literally years of unpaid work on DBI. (Also, do you expect Bob Woodward to answer your questions about Watergate simply because he got royalties from writing a book about it?) Tim regularly forwards mail to the list when others on the list can answer, that is how the list has always worked and it has worked well. Another reason to keep questions on the list rather than in personal mail is that an issue that impacts one impacts all and the only way for all to know about it is to see it on the list.

The DBI documentation is very clear:

"The /dbi-users/ mailing list is the primary means of communication among users of the DBI and its related modules"

So don't take Tim's forwarding your message personally, have some patience, and someone on the list will answer your question.

--
Jeff
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