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From: tim@ohday.sybase.com (Tim Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,news.groups
Subject: Re: Database Mailing Lists
Keywords: mail database
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Date: 26 Jun 91 21:12:35 GMT
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In article <19621153@thinc.COM> ethan@thinc.COM (Ethan.Lish@THINC.COM) writes:
>In article <1991Jun24.214759.10746@mips.mitek.com>, barb@hp835.mitek.com (Barbara Rush) writes:
>>>In article <206@dmdev.UUCP> rohit@dmdev.UUCP (Rohit Mehrotra) writes:
>>>>How does one get on to the mailing lists for the following databases:
>>>>Oracle, Sybase, Informix
>
>Greetings -
>
>                        Is it time yet ?
>
>        Over the past six months comp.databases has withered away into a series
>of private mailing lists devoted to database packages.  What brave soul will 
>call for the reorg of the group ?
>        
>		[ list of subgroups by vendor name deleted ]

It's getting time, but I would reorg along different lines.  Many
database discussions are not vendor-specific, so we still need a
vanilla comp.databases.  It's also useful to see comparative
discussions of different vendors' products; these might be lost if
discussion was partitioned by vendor.  

It might be more useful to decompose along more topical lines, eg:

	comp.databases.theory	- For "what is an RDBMS"-type discussions :-)
	comp.databases.market	- For comparative discussions of released 
				  or "announced" products, and "tell me what
				  DBMS to buy" postings.
	comp.databases.appl	- For requests for applications (or DBA) help 
				  and answers.  This group could be decomposed
				  further, as:
				.vendorX
				.vendorY ... 
				  This might bring the best
				  cost/benefit to decomposing, as most of
				  vendorY's users can probably do without 
				  knowing how to change vendorX's screen
				  layouts, etc.

-TW

PS I guess this dialogue now amounts to a CFD, so followups go to
news.groups.
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