Re: A few NG related questions

For what it's worth, I've never bothered charting the quantity of responses in the Oracle NG's relative to any other...however, to add to Noon's post:

These groups are not moderated except through very strict guidelines from the regular contributors - they are along the lines of "do some research before you post"..

My own to cents, busier than they used to be or not, I can always count on this newsgroup to reflect an answer the issues that are current to Oracle users in the profession today..it's a "must read" for me

Warmest regards,

Steve

Noons wrote:

> "John" <jbradshaw777_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:f2f59d82.0308130923.266a8c2f_at_posting.google.com...
>
> > * Are these ORACLE news groups moderated? I was under the impression
> > that they are, but I am beginning to think I was wrong.
>
> You were wrong.
>
> > * I saw posting statistics posted from time to time. How are these
> > ststs generated? Is ORACLE Corp. somehow involved?
>
> A volunteer does that. He might be from O, but no one is paying
> him specifically to do it.
>
> > * For people who have been in these NGs for a while, how has the
> > traffic to these NGs changed over the years? I heard somebody say the
> > traffic used to be much busier.
>
> That "somebody" doesn't have a clue what he/she is saying. If anything,
> it's busier now.
>
> > * For people who also visit the SQL server NGs, how do you compare the
> > traffic, over the years? I was surprised to know there were many more
> > SQL server related NGs than ORACLE, and I saw a lot of traffic over
> > there.
>
> In the comp.databases.* hierarchy in google, you'll find
> 1 (one) NG for sql server, 4 (four) for Oracle and 11 (eleven!)
> for Postgres. Draw your own conclusions...
>
> Now, if you're talking about the NGs under the microsoft.* hierarchy,
> I don't know: those are controlled by microsoft and there are
> quite a few created out of the blue sky. They seem to go up in
> number with every new release of a product from that company.
>
> While you're there, compare the relative lengths of the little
> green bars on top of each NG name. That shows you which
> ones have been active in the last week or so.
>
> --
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam
Received on Wed Aug 13 2003 - 21:54:29 CDT