Re: Statistics for comp.databases.oracle.server - WE 26/1/2003

From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:34:40 -0600
Message-ID: <Xns9310DB804CC35pingottpingottbah@216.166.71.233>

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in news:0nnZ9.34692$jM5.88742_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com:

>
> "Pablo Sanchez" <pablo_at_dev.null> wrote in message

>> >
>> > OK, fess up: what newsreader do you use.
>>
>> Xnews -- runs on Windows (right up your alley eh? :)
>>
>> It even warns you when you've included too much text in your
>> follow-up.

>
> Presumably you mean 'included too much of the original poster's
> text'? Or does it actually tell you if your original works of art
> are too long, too?

Tells you if your work of art has a silent 'ef' in front of it that you can't see.

>> Seems some posters (not you) could use that kick in the
>> pants:
>>
>>   http://Xnews.newsguy.com

>
> I will check it out. But be warned: anything that's got an 'X' or a
> 'GNU' in its name is not exactly flavour of the month round here at the
> moment!!

Understood. One of the many things I like about it is that I can jump out and use my own editor, then jump back. I use xemacs as my editor (windows or *nix) -- I could use the news reader within xemacs but I like Xnews.

> But thanks for the tip, anyway!

YW! If you get stuck with it, it has a slightly stiff learning curve, ping me and I'll give you a hand. You can figure out my email addr eh? <g>

later!

-- 
Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
http://www.hpdbe.com

Received on Mon Jan 27 2003 - 22:34:40 CST