Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dasys1!tbetz From: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: comp.4gl ???? Summary: Keep the chatter public! Message-ID: <6718@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 88 23:12:24 GMT References: <2820002@hpausla.HP.COM> <25112@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Reply-To: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) Organization: Zen Community of New York Lines: 29 Quoth berlin@buita.bu.edu (David Fickes Einstein Project) in <25112@bu-cs.BU.EDU>: |In article <2820002@hpausla.HP.COM> cjh@hpausla.HP.COM (Clifford Heath) writes: |>With all the traffic about 4gl's (especially Informix) recently, |>how about creating comp.4gl? I mean, there are now quite a few 4gl's |>that don't come from database vendors, so including 4gl talk in |>comp.databases is really a bit wrong. | |How about the Informix folk setting up a MAILING list.. and |see where that goes...there are many (if not hundreds) of sites |that have nothing to do with INFORMIX ... can't these Informix |"discussions" be placed on a mailing list??? I'd be happy to |assist in setting one up.. (soon to come an INGRES mail list) |and I'd be more than happy to maintain a list-of-lists of |database related mailing lists that can be periodically posted |or sent out on demand???? I'd just as soon keep the talk public. I have found these discussions quite enlightening, as one shopping around for a 4gl package, and would rather move the 4gl talk to a new newsgroup than have to subscribe to a mailing list. If the available lists were regularly posted in comp.databases for the sake of newcomers, I'd be willing to accept it. I for one would prefer a comp.databases.4gl newsgroup. -- "If I found the truth I would tell you and you |Tom Betz would have me shot." -- Carlos Fuentes -- |ZCNY, Yonkers, NY 10701-2509 Those who purchase a little safety at the price of |UUCP: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP or liberty will soon have neither liberty nor safety. | ...!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tbetz