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From: [e-mail] (Enno Sandner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Moderation... what do you think?
Date: 13 Jan 1996 13:37:02 GMT
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In-reply-to: [e-mail]'s message of Fri, 12 Jan 1996 22:55:26 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Le Marquis de Sade) writes:

   I've noticed that there's a LOT of cross-posting going on in comp.lang.c++
   about things that really AREN'T C++ related.  For example, people asking about
   Visual Basic.  Others asking about OO methodology.

   Additionally, there is a lot of platform-dependent threadage regarding usage
   of Visual C++ or Borland C++ or whatnot.  Should not those things be in
   alt.os.windows.programming??? (the precise name escapes me...my apologies).

   The truly C++ topics (how do I initialize an array of classes, discussions on
   heavy use of virtual functions versus templates, etc.) get lost in the
   shuffle.

   I suggest that someone moderates this heavily travelled group to improve the
   signal-to-noise ratio.  What do you think?  Any volunteers?

That's a good idea --- However there already _are_ two moderated C++
newsgroups, namely 'comp.lang.c++.moderated' and 'comp.std.c++'.
The latter is the right place for discussion of the draft standard,
the former is similar to this newsgroup.

        Enno