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<p>All,</p>
<p> As one who has spent a lot of time interpreting instructions from technical people to non-technical people, I believe I can see reason in both contentions here, just a technology gap between them. </p>
<p> When the first person asked if they should keep 8.0.1 or wait for the next release, he wanted an answer that at least began with something like this... "No, we already have the fix prepared in version 8.0.3." THEN, the second person could go on to explain how it is found and downloaded and installed for optimum use.</p>
<p> At this time of year, there are a lot of new commanders and other officers that are having their first experience with any internet based function of the USPS other than possibly getting a "list" of one sort or another, and it seems relatively few use these lists, compared to the number of people we have in responsible positions in the organization.</p>
<p> The many people like John who have little experience with computers and are now thrust, by a new office in the USPS, into working with things like DB2000 that are not only completely unfamiliar to them, but on an unfamiliar medium, the internet. Someone saw fit to make this person a commander or the like and we need to respect their choice and help their squadron (as a team would) to be a stronger link of our overall fabric. None of us will benefit from tearing new holes anywhere in the fabric!!! We simply need to understand that we are all different and listen carefully to questions to interpret on what level the best answer would be presented to achieve understanding.</p>
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<p>VERY sincerely yours,</p>
<p>Karl E. Peters, Webmaster</p>
<p>Golden Isles Sail & Power Squadron (<a class=rvts6 href="www.gisps.org">www.gisps.org</a>)</p>
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