Re: tough choices

"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:<40da76b7$0$19155$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> I've only put my post in at this point for want of somewhere else to do it.
> It's not a reply to anyone, actually.
>
> This has all been most fascinating, and probably could continue to be. And
> it occurs to me that there is probably a use for a full-blown newsgroup to
> cover the intersect between the two products. It must surely be quite common
> to have to do both DB2 *and* Oracle work, and a newsgroup that compares one
> with another, or explains one in the terms of the other, might not be a bad
> idea. If only I knew how to go about doing such a thing, I might perhaps do
> it. Maybe someone else will think it a good idea and run with it?

The hard way:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/creating-newsgroups/

The easy way:

http://www.nylon.net/alt/newgroup.htm

How about alt.comp.databases.compare? There have been many comparison threads going back years. Or maybe alt.comp.databases.heterogenous? (with bets on how long until someone created acd.gay :) Or maybe both acdc (ohhh... sorry :) for serious discussions and acd.mine-is-better...

>
> But, aside from that, I'd venture to suggest that the thread itself is
> pretty much off-topic for at least the Oracle group, whose charter I have at
> least read. Particularly since it regularly threatens to degenerate into a
> product-bashing competition, and not a vehicle for mutual enlightenment.

I don't entirely agree, obviously the genital-wart-size posts are OT, but there is a lot of interesting stuff wrt partitioning, etc. Maybe shoulda been cdo.misc, but what do you expect from crossposting?

>
> Do you think we might begin to draw it to a close, please?
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Regards
> HJR
jg

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