I looked at the description of the list and it says This mailing list is to discuss all things Oracle. Though it tends to be DBA centric at times, all Oracle questions are welcome. Nothing about threshold knowledge. However, this list is above all the other lists because of the quality of its members Mladen has alot of knowledge but it seems he has no self control on his postings. But I'm going to limit myself to the post in question and say if a user has root and uses init 6 without knowing what it does ,well that's their problem. If some of the big time gurus were to leave because of Mladen then that would be a shame. Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------