Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic"?)

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:47:47 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 01:16:43PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>> Ah, you finally got it! Now you see why someone would ask an OT here?
>> >:-)
> 
> <Grin> I have always "got it!", my point is regarding YOU *encouraging*
> that behaviour.
>
> OP:
> Paraphrase: "Just mark it [OT] and it's OK"

When the action is justified, yes... why not?

A user that marks an OT is telling us that at least:

- He/she knows how the basic flow of a mailing lists work
- He/she knows he/she can importunate the rest of users by asking
- He/she has a problem and thinks this list can be of help at some degree
- He/she only wants some feedback not a solution thats works "out-of-the-
box"

All of the above tells me about the kindness/politeness of a person and I 
would take it into account.

>> (side note: yes, there are forums and mailing lists available at their
>> site)
> 
> Link, to mailing list? Handy to know for redirection purposes. :-)

Forums:
https://forums.oracle.com

Mailing lists:
https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo

And also a bunch of unofficial newsgroups:

comp.databases.oracle.server
comp.databases.oracle.tools
comp.databases.oracle.misc

Note: Every project can also have their own mailing list, such as 
VirtualBox, which is hosted in SourceForge and not under the Open Source 
projects listed above.

THT :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón