Yeah, this is one of the replacement forums for the NNTP/forums.sybase.com site.
This particular forum is geared towards folks using ASE as a standalone product (basically everyone using ASE for anything other than the run time database engine for the SAP application suite). SAP has greatly reduced the number of forums which means that just about everything touching on ASE shows up in this forum (eg, general questions, admin, P&T, backup, client/connectivity, etc).
For folks using ASE as a run time database engine for the SAP application suite, there's a separate forum: http://scn.sap.com/community/sybase-ase/content?filterID=content~objecttype~objecttype[thread]
And for repserver: http://scn.sap.com/community/sybase-replication-server/content?filterID=content~objecttype~objecttype[thread]
As for the old NNTP forums, they're available in read-only format: http://nntp-archive.sybase.com/nntp-archive/action/product/list