Re: Splitting comp.databases.oracle ?
Date: 1995/07/12
Message-ID: <3tvg9h$at6_at_crcnis3.unl.edu>#1/1
:In article <07-10-1995.8480_at_mabell>, Mark A. Abell <mabell_at_mhs.oz.au> wrote:
:> For a start I would like to see the job postings split out. As an
:>Australian Oracle consultant I am not interested in American job ads.
I sympathize highly with this, but I'm not sure that the people who post most of those ads will follow the rules and post them only to a 'jobs' or 'marketplace' subgroup. Their goal is to reach as many potential victims as possible, and they really don't give a damn who they annoy.
:>If this group does not get split soon then I may join the ranks of some
:>of my coleagues who have already decided that this group is a waste of
:>time (WOFTAM).
Just to update folks on this, Tony Jambu and I are working on gathering some accurate statistics on the volume of posts and the frequency of various topics. I though I had this data on my office system, but that system must not be getting all the posts. Tony will be sending me some data which I hope to have analyzed by late next week. (I have another project which will keep me from working on this over the weekend.)
Several weeks ago I posted that volume was running 65 posts/day. I now think that was based on inaccurate data. I'll have the real goods in a week or two, but my 'gut feeling' is that volume is now over 100 posts/day, because it seems like I'm seeing 30-40 new posts every time I log in to read news on this system, which I do around 3 times/day, including weekends. (OK, I'm a news junkie!)
-- Mike Nolan nolan_at_helios.unl.eduReceived on Wed Jul 12 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST