Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!prodigy.com!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer.radix.net!news.er.usgs.gov!news From: Brian Peasland Subject: I hate OTN now (and Metalink's searches) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: edcxpw014.cr.usgs.gov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <40634C73.1EB9807E@remove_spam.peasland.com> Sender: news@igsrsparc2.er.usgs.gov (Janet Walz (GD) x6739) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston VA X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:17:39 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) Lines: 30 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:258087 {rant on} Why oh why did OTN decide to bury the links to the docs way down in the lower right hand corner of the page? It was hard enough to get people to access the docs when it was an easy click from the top of the page. Now I have to scroll down to the bottom, pull down a menu, and select an item. {rant off} {rant on 2} Why oh why did Metalink decide to "improve" my searching by getting rid of the quick search ability from the home page? Now I have to click on a button to get to advanced searching. {rant off 2} -- =================================================================== Brian Peasland dba@remove_spam.peasland.com Remove the "remove_spam." from the email address to email me. "I can give it to you cheap, quick, and good. Now pick two out of the three"