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- From: accs1@bagheera.mumath
- Subject: Re: Lets split comp.lang.ada into multiple groups to confine flames
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.084727.26313@sunbim.be>
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- Organization: Sun Microsystems
- References: <62879@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 08:47:27 GMT
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- In article 62879@mimsy.umd.edu, alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
- >make comp.lang.ada obsolete and create a small set of groups instead.
- >
- > some suggestions
- >
- > comp.lang.advocacy - for the flame wars
- > comp.lang.programmer - for discussions of design/development Ada language issues
- > (or comp.lang.technical or better name?)
- > comp.lang.announce - moderated, low volume important announcements
- > of meetings, products, standards, new mandates :) etc
- > comp.lang.misc - catch all
- >
- >this works well in the NeXT groups which I've been reading lately
- >they have huge flame fests between Objective-C and C++ but confine
- >them to the advocacy group.
- >
- >anyone interested or familiar with how to do this?
- >
- >P.S. For people worried about getting overrun by C++, stop worrying
- >and do something to contribute to Ada's success instead of flaming.
- >Does anyone else program in Ada on a NeXT using a DVORAK keyboard?
- >Talk about swimming against the tide.
- >
- >--
- >---------------------------------------------------
- >Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted
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- I like the idea and the division as proposed sounds reasonable.
- Frank
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