Oracle, the: The all-knowing, all-wise Internet Oracle
rec.humor.oracle), or one of the foreign language derivatives of
same. Newbies frequently confuse the Oracle with Oracle, a database
vendor. As a result, the unmoderated rec.humor.oracle.d is
frequently crossposted to by the clueless, looking for advice on
SQL. As more then one person has said in similar situations, "Don't
people bother to look at the newsgroup description line anymore?"
(To which the standard response is, "Did people ever read it in the
first place?")