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- From: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
- Subject: Re: Is there interest in comp.sources.postscript?
- Message-ID: <6764@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 05:03:33 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.231730.8716@cs.brown.edu> <4424@vidiot.UUCP> <1992Nov13.074923.8783@dsd.es.com>
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- Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.
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- In article <1992Nov13.074923.8783@dsd.es.com> rthomson@dsd.es.com
- (Rich Thomson) writes:
-
- >In article <4424@vidiot.UUCP>
- > brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
-
- >>For starters, I'd stick with the following groups:
- >>
- >> comp.sources.postscript
- >
- >This sounds fine.
- >
- >> comp.sources.postscript.d
- >
- >I'm really confused why this group is needed. Why can't the
- >discussion take place in this newsgroup? Whenever talking about
- >proposing groups on usenet, always ask youself this question:
- >
- > Will an existing group serve the need?
- >
- >For me, the need for a place to discuss postscript programming and
- >postscript programming techniques is served by comp.lang.postscript.
-
- There are two reasons why the suggested names are a good idea.
- Firstly, they follow existing net conventions of a sources or binaries
- group paired with another group with the ".d" appended - meaning the
- discussion group. Conforming to the defacto naming standard seems a
- good thing in itself - people know what to expect of the group simply
- by looking at its name.
-
- Secondly, it ensures that discussion - which can be quite lengthy and
- can diverge wildly from the original topic before the thread dies - is
- in a separate group. This facilitates automatic archiving of the
- sources group., without it being padded out by non-source items. This
- is freindly to the disk space of the site(s) archiving it, and
- freindly to the patience of people lookin back at the archives for
- that little gem of a routine that was posted 5 years ago...
-
- >The need for a group explicitly for posting postscript source isn't
- >directly served by c.l.p it seems. This is even more the case when
- >you consider the fact that you probably would like to have the sources
- >group moderated.
-
- Moderated. Make that three reasons. A moderated sources group would be
- a good idea IMHO, wheras I feel the discussion group would be better
- unmoderated.
-
- --
- Chris Lilley
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