Re: new newsgroup

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 13:58:08 +0100
Message-ID: <3b139ce2$0$15031$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net>

"George Dau" <gedau_at_isa.mapson.com.au> wrote in message news:3b1079a3.371161221_at_172.22.22.15...
> Google groups have the news archives back up. See the discussions in the
> second half on 1996 when we debated the original split of
> comp.databases.oracle
>

Thanks for this George. Interesting reading.

FWIW my idea was not that the 'elite' should have their own special newsgroup, but to try to reduce some of the 'How do I get certified in 2 hours?' and 'Is OCP a recognised qualification?' type traffic from misc.

However given that the original intention (as I read it) in '96 was to allocate dba type stuff to server, developer type stuff to tools,jobs to marketplace and other stuff to misc - and that by and large this has not happened (with the notable exception of marketplace) I guess I'll just withdraw my suggestion.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK

Received on Tue May 29 2001 - 07:58:08 CDT