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>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.
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>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.
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>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.

I understand what you mean. I don't mind about that as much as you do. It's like when I'm watching TV. I never pay attention to the commercials. So over here it's the same. I get what I need and I don't really see the rest.

You mean because I'm french Canadian I could get it my way around here. I wish I'd knew about that sooner :->

Perhaps the marketing is a sign of the times. We just have to live with it.

But there's one big thing to consider on the marketing on the UT. I greatly enjoy its free access. And Michel Fournier's business has to make money somewhere. If he does'nt charge me he'll have to charge somebody else. And that somebody else seems to be the marketing you're referring to.

If everybody over here were to pay big money to have access then we'd have a word to say about the kind of marketing done over here. It's not the case so you won't see me complaining soon.

But even after all of this I understand how you feel.