Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!bcm!svedberg!rick From: rick@svedberg.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: comp.4gl ???? Summary: mailing lists Message-ID: <1295@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Date: 29 Sep 88 17:31:05 GMT References: <2820002@hpausla.HP.COM> <25112@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Sender: usenet@bcm.tmc.edu Lines: 29 In article <25112@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, berlin@bu-cs.BU.EDU (David K. Fickes) writes: > > 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???? > > whaddya think? > This is true of any product. The news group should contain info about all database products. If it is about a product for which you have no interest, then just use the 'n' key to skip over it. I see no reason to not post this information in the group. I would like to continue things as they are. I do think that the idea of a comp.4gl would be useful. Someone should start a discussion about the idea in news.groups. Richard H. Miller Email: rick@svedberg.bcm.tmc.edu Head, System Support Voice: (713)799-4511 Baylor College of Medicine US Mail: One Baylor Plaza, 302H Houston, Texas 77030