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- From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
- Subject: Re: Lets split comp.lang.ada into multiple groups to confine flames
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.172750.17320@seas.gwu.edu>
- Sender: news@seas.gwu.edu
- Organization: George Washington University
- References: <62879@mimsy.umd.edu> <1992Dec17.084727.26313@sunbim.be>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:27:50 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1992Dec17.084727.26313@sunbim.be> accs1@bagheera.mumath writes:
- >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?
- Usenet has a balloting procedure, but I haven't the foggiest idea how it
- works. No doubt there is a bewsgroup to post this to, but I don't know
- that either...
- >>
- >
- >I like the idea and the division as proposed sounds reasonable.
- I will also vote yes when the ballot arrives. Long overdue!
-
- Mike Feldman
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