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
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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.


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