Paul,

I heard your name before and know you're one of the InterBase
dinosaurs, so I owe you a lot of respect. But I'd like to make a
remark about these statements of yours anyway:

--- In IBDI@y..., "Paul Beach" <pabeach@w...> wrote:
> There has been a huge amount of talk re. the Firebird website, but
> (and maybe I missed it) no-one has actually stated how grateful -
> any of us are - for the work and effort that Pavel has put in to
> creating and maintaining the Firebird site.

> Knowing all to well, how much time and effort this can be (cf.
> IBPhoenix),

Comparing the current Firebird site with IBPhoenix's site is
ridiculous.

> I want to make sure that before Markus dismisses Pavel (on this
list) out of hand just because Pavel (quite sensibly) wants to move
> to a list dedicated to this topic.

That's not the point. The point is, that he did not even suggest such
a move but simply announced the fact. You know my earlier message was
addressed not only to Pavel, but also to Helen, Mark, all the others.
I don't know who is on this new list, but I do know the persons I
want to address are on the IBDI list.

>
> That all of you know where a significant amount of (unpaid)
> firebird website related time and effort has come from.

Ok, he spent time.

But is it the type of website Firebird needs? What's your opinion on
that, Paul?

> Thanks Pavel, appreciated as always.
>
> I like the rabbits.
>
> Paul Beach
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Markus.