Re: A few NG related questions

Thanks Mark! Not that I care if ORACLE is invloved. Just curious. Enjoy reading your posts, good solid professional advice everytime.

John

Mark Townsend <markbtownsend_at_attbi.com> wrote in message news:<3F3B067D.1020500_at_attbi.com>...
> John wrote:
>
> > * I saw posting statistics posted from time to time. How are these
> > ststs generated? Is ORACLE Corp. somehow involved?
>
> So that's me then.
>
> I use a series of Perl scripts (nntpget, news-scan, news-stats)
> available from http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/News/,
> originally written by Greg Bacon <gbacon_at_cs.uah.edu>.
>
> One or more of these scripts are Copyright (c) 1998 Greg Bacon.
>
> I do work for Oracle, but the collection and posting of the stats is
> done by myself in my own free time.
>
> In the interest of full disclosure, I do use this newsgroup as a source
> of information, I do use this information to help determine the types of
> issues affecting our customers, and I do feed these into the database
> product development cycle as product requirements.
>
> Once again, however, this is purely my own initiative, and as an
> activity is not officially sponsored by Oracle.
Received on Thu Aug 14 2003 - 15:59:15 CDT