Originally Posted By: jonel
Thanks Pat, I feel at home already.

I spent most of my working life in computing and software as a lecturer and practioner. I remember in the dim distant past there used to be forums for software development. What I didn't know was that most of the community of these forums were experts and they never took to kindly to what they perceived as a stupid question. Oh how I remember the times I was quoted RTFM.

Regards

John


In the early days of this forum, I saw that acronym a few times... but that was a long time ago. The people in this forum have made a conscious effort to build this as not only an information place, but also as a community of friends. We have the occasional flame skirmish but nothing I'd call a flame war. Most topics are approachable as long as people on both sides of the discussion maintain the dignity of others (the phrase "RTFM" is intended to shame the other person, which is inconsistent with this forum's style, and therefore why you won't see that here from the regular forum crowd. )

Of all the forums I've ever joined, this is by far the most civil and accepting. I hope your experience here is as good as mine has been.

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