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[Dean Mah]

Which is exactly the problem.  I don't think that MG uses any database
other than its own flat-file or DBM-type database.  Tying MG to Oracle
couples the applications together too closely for independent use.
You end up with a highly-coupled and loosely cohesive system, which in
terms of software engineering (actually that was the software
engineering term), is a bad thing.

Dean


rudy writes:

> see, in real life, these things do happen -- e.g. an email to
> subscribe at example.com can be processed by a listserv which keeps its
> own file of subscribers, and you'd be nuts to try to patch the
> listserv software to write into an oracle table