Re: Data Administration - Anyone Interested?

In article <410pnm$j4o@crl.crl.com>, gdh@crl.com wrote: > >David Cressey (cressey@rzdisk.enet.qntm.com) wrote: >> In article <40u2rr$2b9@crl.crl.com>, gdh@crl.com (G. D. Hildebrand) writes: >> > >[snip] >> >> I consider what has been done so far to be "testing the waters". >> The replies that say "add my name to the list" (mine included) are, >> sort of, the answer to that test. > >> Your message also mentions the possibility of setting up a maillist >> rather than a newsgroup. If the promoter(s) choose this path, adding >> names to a list will have been of the essence. > >Quite so! It wasn't clear from the replies you were getting if anybody >was aware of what it takes to get things going. If you'all are on the >right track, then more power to you! Good luck and best wishes! > >> Regards, >> Dave > >Regards, Garrett >-- >G.D. Hildebrand Systems Wrangler Internet Information Services Administrator >Checking to see how cpp does stuff like catenate |Canonical: gdh@ACM.ORG >tokens... Oh! Smells like ANSI's been here. We can|Temporal: gdh@crl.com >catify or stringify, separately or together! (Perl)| http://www.crl.com/~gdh What you might want to try on the more immediate side of life is setting up an internet chat session on one of the IRC servers. I've been toying with this idea, for a tools topic, but you could do an open chat session on data administration, and see a more immediate response from folks. It would take a bit of orchestration, but it might be fun. Just an idea. After watching the Windows NT newsgroup suffer through the new newsgroup blues I think you'll be waiting a while. Tim -- \\\\|// (O|O) ==============================---o00--(_)--00o---============================ Tim Schaefer tschaefe@gate.net http://www.gate.net/~tschaefe Make America great again: Abolish the IRS and reinstitute public hangings =============================================================================