Hi Roy,

c.d.i has traditionally seen a downturn in December with the exception of
2004 where we had bit of a spam attack (it was interesting reading) But it
does seem this year everyone is going on holidays a bit sooner. Recently
the trend has been about 30% reduction in postings each year. I wonder if
that balances against the increase in postings in the forums and other mail
lists.

I really do believe less postings means DBAs are having less problems with
the new versions of Ingres, and also being easier to set up on Windows
instead of the traditional VMS and Unix means we have more DBAs out in the
field.

and maintenance. It is easy to install and has very good performance
straight out of the box. I provide second level support for over 150
installations and I rarely have to intervene.

re pollution.
For myself, I agree, I really dont have time to hang around the forums and
would much rather a mail or news feed which I can deal with offline. I have
been talking to the forum team for over 3 years about how to get a two way
feed going without compromising privacy of the members (since OpenROAD users
list is a closed list) and also to prevent spam / viruses. Whats a
vBulletin thingy? Is it like an RSS feed?


Paul White
OpenROAD Users List Admin
pwhite (AT) peercore (DOT) com.au
shift7solutions (AT) gmail (DOT) com


-----Original Message-----
From: info-ingres-bounces (AT) kettleriver...ting (DOT) com
[mailto:info-ingres-bounces (AT) kettleriverconsulting (DOT) com]On Behalf Of Roy
Hann
Sent: Wednesday, 17 December 2008 1:16 AM
To: info-ingres (AT) kettleriverconsulting (DOT) com
Subject: [Info-Ingres] More mailing lists


I see that http://community.ingres.com/wiki/Ingres_Mailing_Lists has
been created. As well as the lists and forums we've all known about
forever, it also shows a number of the engineering mailing lists.

I was aware these exist because they sometimes pop up in Google searches
so it is very nice to see them openly being advertised.

For those of you who detest browser interfaces to forums, and can't sit
watching IRC chat all day every day, these should be worth signing up
to, especially as the traffic here on c.d.i and info-ingres is tailing
off.

Now that the Ingres forums are hosted with vBulletin it should be
possible to get them to cross-post to info-ingres and hence to c.d.i.
In the new year I shall be renewing my campaign for that to happen.
(Don't worry OpenROADers; I shall not be asking to pollute your lists
with it.)

--
Roy

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"Paul White" <shift7solutions (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

http://www.vbulletin.com/

I could get excited if it had an Ingres backend.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul White" <shift7solutions (AT) gmail (DOT) com>
To: "Ingres and related product discussion forum"
<info-ingres (AT) kettleriverconsulting (DOT) com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Info-Ingres] More mailing lists


Exciting? perhaps not, but it's the most popular forum software bar none,
and it works really well.