-----------------SNIP----------------------- So it's a Catch 22; you'll either complain that the reply is too short or that it's too long.
-- It is the word word replies (sorry I couldn't resist the first reply). People write in whole complete sentences for a complete thought to be conveyed. I am not an English major but I believe there are very few instances that one word sentences that are reasonably allowed. On the otherhand when you have 1, 2 or more pages then it becomes a government document that is bloated beyond recognitition. Take as an example (sorry do not have the number off the top of my head). I believe its called the MVS COBOL conversion guide (or something close) is close to what I am trying to convey here. They manage to take a simple statement and turn into a legalize length document that you truly have to be a lawyer to understand. I had many questions that were posed to me as a sysprog. It got dizzy about how they so carefully worded sentences that you really had to have a lawyer read the damn manual. Programmers hated me as I tried to play lawyer (failed miserably mind you). Some of the replies on here are a lot like that. We shouldn't need a law degree to understand them. We are professionals on here and I suspect we all know how to read at least at the college level, NOT at a legal level however as I suspect you know how lawyers can find loop holes in everything. Fine if you are a lawyer but don't expect the rest of us to understand or even want to take the time to decipher and analyze a email that does not convey useful information. Its great if you are billing per hour but we don't get paid that way. Most of us read IBM-MAIN at work (I guess) and reading long entries does not enhance our productivity. If there are a few of you that read it other places then I guess you can afford the effort to do so. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
