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- From: eachus@oddjob.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
- Subject: Re: Lets split comp.lang.ada into multiple groups to confine flames
- In-Reply-To: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu's message of Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:27:50 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:39:34 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
-
- If this is becomming a serious proposal, the names should be
- comp.lang.ada.programmer, etc. However comp.lang.advocacy might be
- more appropriate than having a separate group for each language. (Of
- course, as soon as this is mentioned in news.groups, the C and C++
- groups will play keep up with the Jones.)
-
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- Robert I. Eachus
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