Re: Effects of framentation

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:06:11 GMT, "VC" <boston103_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hello Richard,
>

<snip>
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>I've the same experince myself, at least for the last couple of years.
>
>The usual dialog on a metalink forum:
>
>1. Question: <anything>
>2. Support: <irrelevant or misleading response>
>3. Another participant (Mr. X) comes in and gives a useful answer.
>4. Support: Let's thank Mr. X. I am closing the problem as solved.
>
>
>Rgds.
>
>VC

I wish! My experience has been more like

1. Question: <anything>
2. (3 days later) Helooo??? Anyone home?
3. (a week later) Helooo??? Anyone home?
4. Support: <irrelevant or misleading response, usually very indicative that they didn't really read the original question>
5. Another participant (Mr. X) comes in and gives a useful answer.
6. Support: Let's thank Mr. X. I am closing the problem as solved.

I've often wished I had the time to do a study of the average response time between a MetaLink forum new question and initial Oracle response. This ng is so much more useful, that I seldom post questions on MetaLink anymore. Received on Thu Jan 29 2004 - 08:06:50 CST