Re: NEWS: KROGER STORES CHOOSES INFORMIX PARALLEL PROCESSING DATABASE TECHNOLOGY FOR CLIENT/SERVER IMPLEMENTATION

In article <1994May7.230624.28788@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt) writes: |> In <2q8hv8$2f8@delphinium.cig.mot.com> tomlnsn@rtsg.mot.com (Dave Tomlinson) writes: |> |> >In article <1994May3.014640.16666@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt) writes: |> >|> In <2q3ibq$p23@infmx.informix.com> billd@informix.com (William Daul) writes: |> >|> |> >|> >NOTE: Is this information appropriate for comp.databases.informix? |> >|> > --Bill |> >|> |> ><clip> |> |> >|> Weeeeeeell, to my mind, this would be infinitely better if it were in something |> >|> like biz.informix, and leave comp.* to technical material. <clip> |> >|> So, I encourage a biz.informix group, and suggest posting -all- your |> >|> press releases there, etc. |> <clip> |> |> >Whereas I don't think that customer related press releases are warranted in this |> >newsgroup, since they are purely marketing oriented, I don't want only technical |> >information here, either. I am interested in some of the business related |> >information about Informix. Release announcements, perhaps training schedules (I |> >peeked ahead, Bill) and other information that is not purely marketing oriented |> >should be included/allowed. |> |> You can't have it both ways... What you, personally, want, is no doubt not |> the exact same set of postings as others want. I haven't noticed a great deal of traffic to this group, nothing really very heavy technically, not a lot of grossly commercial postings, either. I have noticed a number of headhunter postings to this group that I'm none too fond of and no one has complained. But that is neither here not there. The one person who has e-mailed me has agreed with me. |> |> Balkanization is inevitable, with growth, and sometimes desirable. It's |> not feasible to wade through a group with thousands of postings a day, |> etc. And there are those on the net who don't want to pay for |> commercial type postings. That's why I suggested "just one more" group, |> biz.informix, for the marketing type stuff. I don't disagree. If you noticed, I said that since customer related press releases were purely marketing related, they probably didn't belong in this group. But I want non-technical stuff, too. Release info, world wide conference into, training schedules, etc are OK by me. It's the "I just sold a million dollars worth of hardware/ software to client x", "buy our product, please", "we are a consulting company specializing ..." and the "we need a client server squeegee developer in Tallahassee, comp-sci degree or 74 years of experience needed" type postings that don't belong here. SO I agree that the posting which started this thread does not belong here. :-) But other non-technical postings may have their place. |> |> My main concern is not with informix material, per se, the but stand we |> take. That affects the entire net. If you don't want to see press releases |> all over the place, now is the time to say "here's a way to handle that". <clip> OK, OK, OK, no overtly marketing oriented postings. No headhunter postings, either, OK? |> |> Think five years down the road, where do you want to see Usenet? Home Shopping Network? ;-) DCT "I want a monster! Get me a monster now!"