Just to be clear, I was defending you... :-) I just seemed to recall that I got the thing directly, not from Oracle-L but I could be wrong. Anyway, bygones. RF Robert G. Freeman Author: Oracle Database 11g New Features (Oracle Press) Portable DBA: Oracle (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 10g New Features (Oracle Press) Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) Oracle9i New Feature Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com (Oracle Press) The LDS Church is looking for DBA's. You must be LDS to apply (please don't write to me and tell me I'm breaking the law. A church can choose to hire members of it's own faith. Look it up if you don't believe me). --- On Tue, 7/15/08, Nigel Thomas <nigel.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Nigel Thomas <nigel.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: DWC Employment Inquiry > To: robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx > Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 11:23 AM > Robert wrote: > *As I recall, the message was sent directly to mail > accounts rather than to > the listserv which upset a few folks because it appeared to > be more of a > spamming activity based on trolling the list. Mark wrote a > message > indicating it was an error and I think we all accepted that > apology as such. > Things happen. I have not objections to a post on the list > for an open job > at all, as I've made an occasional one at times. > * > To be fair, the message header I have is clearly addressed > to oracle-l and > not to personal mail ids. NB I see even your own signature > includes: > *The LDS Church is looking for DBA's.... > > *;-)* > > *Regards Nigel -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l