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From: Tom Wheeley <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.lang.basic,comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.basic.visual,announce,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java
Subject: Re: Proposal:  alt.binaries.examples.vb4 , alt.binaries.examples.vcpp , alt.binaries.examples.java
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 96 02:02:33 GMT
Organization: City Zen FM
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In article <4k5ta0$[e-mail]>
           [e-mail] "Richard G. Harper" writes:

> Hmmm ... Though a noble thought, why can't code snippets be posted in the
> existing programming groups?  Now if you wanted to send large binary posts
> or DLLs or something that might be a different problem - but unless I slept
> through a programming class somewhere VB4, VC++ and Java all use ASCII
> compatible source code...

Large ascii posts are just as bad as large binary posts.

Also, VB forms at least have a binary section, even if you do save as text.
From what I recall, c.l.b.v.m already has small posts of source, just like
in _any_ language group.  However, large programs are not welcome.

Oh, it should be `vb', not `vb4'.  vb3 is superior to vb4 im many ways, ime.
There is no reason to put versioning in newsgroup names -- what are you
going to do when vb5 comes out?  Add yet _another_ newsgroup to the 15000?

You could probably create a `proper' group, like comp.sources.ms-windows ?
Then create something else for Java.

.splitbung
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