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- From: thompson@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (William Thompson, code 682.1, x2040)
- Subject: Re: How About COMP.DATABASES.PARADOX ?
- Message-ID: <23NOV199211574278@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- References: <1992Nov17.163801.919@cs.yale.edu> <1992Nov20.055959.11241@pegasus.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:57:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.055959.11241@pegasus.com>, tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes...
- >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.
-
- The traffic doesn't warrant it!? My god, this newsgroup is humongous. If I
- didn't have to monitor it, I wouldn't because it takes so long to get through
- it! Maybe there are newsgroups out there that are bigger, but this is still
- awfully big. So big that it's a pain.
-
- I think separating out certain traffic as a function of software, when that
- software can be easily identified as separable (like Paradox), is a good idea.
- However, I don't think organizing it by platform, as was suggested earlier,
- makes good sense.
-
- Bill Thompson
-