> You need a course to understand some kind of politeness and writing to a > group, I feel sorry for your colleagues. > In all fairness to Mark, he is often quite helpful with detailed replies to sticky problems. The question he responded to with 'RTFM' was for a very basic question that is easily answered by the documentation. The docs are availabe to anyone that has Oracle, both online at otn.oracle.com and on the software CD's. Personally, I stopped the RTFM replies some time ago, and simply ignore such requests. Jared ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------