>>>>We eagerly await your next ad for this grate event. Please let all of us guy's and gal's know.
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>>>You don't like it?
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>>If you mean blatant marketing, which I thought was against the rules, no, I don't.
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>I don't know if your "guy's and gal's" is intentional.
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>I mean it should have been "guys", as you probably know. nonetheless that did'nt stop me from understanding what he meant. I just hope you feel good about your cheap shot. I'm not surprised by it but a little more disappointed by some guys over here.
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>Based on that last action will you promote yourself as the official UT english language guardian? <bg>
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>I can't wait to see you correct the Italians, Indians... that come over here and make errors from time to time.
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>As for your problem with marketing where would you see it. I mean it's the conferences & events section. If not here where else?

You are correct, "guy's and gal's" was intentional. When Jean-Rene butchered a couple of phrases, that was enough to make me stop biting my tongue. The real issue was elsewhere.

No, I do not like the blatant marketing and advertising here. Call me a dinosaur but back in the old days, on Compuserve, it was verboten. Really more of an unspoken rule that was respected by all. There were posts every day by the likes of Tom Rettig, Alan Griver, Alan Schwartz, Lisa Slater, Tamar Granor, Jim Booth, Whil Hentzen, Calvin Hsia (pre-Microsoft), Randy Brown (ditto), Drew Speedie, Steve Black, Andy Neil, Karen Higgins, Dan Freeman, on and on. Every one of them had a commercial interest in FoxPro in one way or another but there was no overt marketing.

Were they not marketing in a sense? Of course they were. They demonstrated their expertise and fellow members bought their products or hired them as consultants. Still, there was a difference. 99% of their presence online was answering questions and hanging out with friends. Here on the UT it feels different. Craven commercialism is not discouraged (especially if you happen to be French-Canadian or a UT advertiser). There are some who actually have the Microsoft MVP distinction and don't answer a damn thing as far as I can see. They only show up here when they have a class or new release to sell. They are very capable developers, or so I hear. But just try to get a word out of them without the meter running.