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- From: GRAHAM%DRCV06.decnet@DRCVAX.AF.MIL ("DRCV06::GRAHAM")
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Thanks, and an explanation.
- Message-ID: <9211091334.AA22554@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 13:10:00 GMT
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- First, a very hearty thank you to the more than a dozen who answered my
- query about running Oracle 6.0.27 on VMS 5.5. A friend who does subscribe
- to this list told me that there were some complaints about my asking for
- help and not subscribing to the list. Allow me to briefly explain.
-
- I'm blind and use a Dectalk talking terminal to do my work. This list has
- subh volume that, if I were to listen to every message that came over
- looking for the ones which answered my questions, I'd not get much work
- done. Listening is far slower than reading visually. Also, there are so
- many header lines and signature lines and lines of dashes and equals signs,
- etc. that take a long time to listen to, that I'd never get to the meat of
- a message before I got disgusted and quit. I can filter out a lot, but the
- sheer volume would be daunting.
-
- I'll try to keep my queries to an absolute minimum, and apologize to any
- who are offended by my not subscribing. When I used to be able to see, I
- did subscribe, and enjoyed it tremendously, but now that I'm blind, well, I
- have to do it this way.
-
- Thanks again for all the assistance.
-
- Dan Graham
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