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- From: boutell@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell)
- Subject: Re: Something tells me comp.lang.basic wouldn't fly
- Message-ID: <Bxz8y6.BnL@phage.cshl.org>
- Sender: news@phage.cshl.org
- Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Labs
- References: <1992Nov13.145125.11147@julian.uwo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:03:42 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Nov13.145125.11147@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
- >I have gotten a fair amount of e-mail asking "So why don't you start a
- >RFD or RFV for comp.lang.basic.
-
- Yes, why don't you?
-
- >Sure, a lot of people (me included) get enough out of alt.lang.basic, but
- >some places don't get alt groups, and there's also a principle involved here
- >(that a major programming language is kept out of the comp.lang hierarchy).
-
- There's no principle involved. It hasn't been proposed, so what do you
- know, there isn't one.
-
- >
- >With some of the negative comments about basic a few posts back, something
- >tells me that a lot of basic trashers would come out of the woodwork and
- >vote down comp.sys.basic.
-
- Maybe. Maybe not. But you *GUARANTEED* a good hundred or two "no" votes
- by harassing comp.lang.pop, a newsgroup which never bothered us before.
-
- >
- >Surely a vote has been tried before? Does anyone know the results?
-
- I don't believe so. But the odds just went down drastically. Guess
- who's responsible.
-
- -T
-
- --
- Tom Boutell, boutell@cshl.org
-
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