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- From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
- Subject: Re: How About COMP.DATABASES.PARADOX ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.055959.11241@pegasus.com>
- Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
- References: <1992Nov17.163801.919@cs.yale.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 05:59:59 GMT
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- mikef@som.yale.edu (Michael Fanara) writes:
-
- > I think that a seperate group for Paradox would be an excellent idea. I've
- >spent days, that's right days, trying to get through to Borland Tech Support.
-
- >Access to the USENET is a very easy task for me and would prove to be an
- >invaluable service to me.
-
- Mike... dividing up comp.databases comes up every so often (there was talk
- of a separate "xBase" newsgroup some time back) and I oppose them in
- general because the traffic on comp.databases doesn't warrant it.
-
- I don't use Paradox but even if I did (I believe) I would oppose fragmenting
- sources of information. Just using myself as an example (rather than make
- up a mysterious "somebody") suppose that I used to use Paradox and that I
- know bunches about it but I don't use it any longer. It isn't likely that
- I would bother to read comp.databases.paradox but I would continue to read
- messages here. That means (in my example) that you would lose one source
- of potential answers.
-
- In any case, I just noted 14 messages in comp.databases if we divide them
- up by product we can have four new newsgroups and average 3.5 messages in
- each... but there will be more than that because somebody in .paradox is
- going to post a generic question like "what is normalization" and just to
- be certain they've asked everybody they'll repeat it in every group.
-
- To make a long story even longer, your posted difficulties with telephone
- support won't vanish if .paradox is created, you can post the identical
- questions right here. CIS is a good idea however because you will have
- access to many more "users" and Borland also.
-
- tom
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