For those of you who made it to our organizational pre-meeting on Tuesday afternoon, thanks so much! For those of you who wanted to make it but couldn't, congratulations; you've been elected Treasurer. (Just kidding. Minutes on the meeting will be forthcoming, maybe later today.) Anyway, we discussed a whole range of issues, and will be discussing them much more; we need a way to go on with the discussion, without cluttering up this list with a huge amount of traffic. (When I cajoled you into subscribing to dayton-oracle, I promised it would be a low-volume, just-the-facts list.) To that end, we now have a second mailing list, parallel to this one: dayton-oracle-organizers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx d-o-organizers is for everybody who wants to take part in the conversation about how the group and its meetings are going to be organized and arranged. The list you're reading now, dayton-oracle, will be used to announce meeting times, places, etc. once they're actually decided. If you want to take part in these decisions, send an email with the word "subscribe" (only) in the subject line to dayton-oracle-organizers-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<dayton-oracle-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe>If you just want to let somebody else figure the details out and save your inbox for actual meeting announcements, do nothing and just continue to read dayton-oracle. If you were at Tuesday's meeting, or indicated an interest in Tuesday's meeting but couldn't make it, I presumed to subscribe you to d-o-organizers already. Thanks! P. S. : My company, IntelliTech Systems, is looking for another DBA. (No, not to replace me. I think.) Write me if you're interested. -- - Catherine http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/