Re: A comp.databases.oracle.server FAQ

Jonathan Leffler <jleffler_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<HzVUc.27421$9Y6.10464_at_newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
> Joel Garry wrote:
> > "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote:
> >>Well, it's not the charter, and I realise it's referring to something else
> >>entirely (Linux, mostly).
> >>
> >>But this link...
> >>
> >>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> >>
> >>...is quite superb.
> >>
> >>Everyone even tempted to post a question here should read it.
> >
> > I like this line: "In fact, someone may even be so kind as to provide
> > a pointer to the previous thread where this problem was solved"
> >
> > Everyone even tempted to post "that's been done to death here already"
> > should read it.
> >
> > And pointers to websites with google references that blow up do not
> > count.
>
> Aye well, that's what http://tinyurl.com/ is for, isn't it?
>
> See, for example (212 characters before deliberat splitting):
> http://groups.google.com/groups?num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&
> as_drrb=b&q=smart-questions.html+group%3Acomp.databases.oracle.server&
> btnG=Search&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=2004&as_maxd=18&as_maxm=8&as_maxy=2004
>
> Which is also:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6ym4n

Hmmm, I get HTTP 502 Proxy Error - The ISA Server denies the specified Uniform Resource Locator (URL). (12202)
Internet Security and Acceleration Server

But I'm sure that is a local configuration "feature," as I can't seem to get to tinyurl.com from where I happen to be anyways. Cutting and pasting the big one (piece by piece :) works for me. Anyways, when I could get to tinyurl, I wondered if there was a way to get a listing, aside from collecting interesting ones as people post them, I see that as a very useful site. Wonders how they make money.

The blow up I was referring to was a google link to this group on asktom that would do all sorts of weird things, different each time I tried to read it.

Methinks Howard ought to thank Obnoxio the Clown for that smart-questions link :-) (ref the flamefest "database market share 2003" http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=cadl7j%24fec%241%40news.xmission.com&output=gplain )

jg

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