End all Negative Threads Now

[David Burgun]

On 9 Apr 2006, at 19:33, jeffrey reynolds wrote:

> Lynn,

> This list has been very stable and as lists go pretty civil. yes  
> once and a while there are little firestorms, but all and all its  
> very self moderating (except for a few of the comments that were  
> posted that went into illegal areas of software piracy, etc). the  
> fires seem to put themselves out after a few days and bad feelings  
> seem to fade quickly. Negative things about rev almost always end  
> up generating more good comments on rev and focusing of problem  
> areas that need work (nothings perfect and software is even harder  
> to move toward perfection than other things).

Totally Agree,

> I get very worried when a rev representative steps in with heavy  
> handed threats. I hope this is not how the new forums will be  
> moderated. while forums are great for the very general stuff, for  
> the professional developer they are much harder to try and keep up  
> with. the rev list has been great and continues to work well for  
> many of us. Most of the folks active in it have been using the  
> product since mc days. Compartmentalizing things into pigeon hole  
> forums will be of no use to me and by the comments of many on the  
> list neither for them.

I agree again, if a thread bothers you, just don't read it! List's  
are like soap opera's you *should* be able to switch them off if you  
like.

If we could just have some good news that the IDE will be fixed  
sometime soon or some tools to make life easier. For instance, the  
debugger doesn't work very well when switching contexts. If we had  
some kind of low level tool that would provide some kind of trace  
facility that would be something to help.

All the Best
Dave