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- From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Re: Lets split comp.lang.ada into multiple groups to confine flames
- Message-ID: <62920@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 03:24:05 GMT
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- % 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
-
- mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
-
- > Uh, I think you're probably going to have some problems getting this
- > past all the other language groups, since it seems to assume that
- > 'comp.lang.programmer' assumes Ada.
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-
- sorry, my mistake. Of course the groups should start with
- the prefix comp.lang.ada. I didnt type what I meant.
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- so the names would be comp.lang.ada.advocacy etc
-
- Is anyone familiar with the call for votes process?
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