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- From: sjm@bcrki65.bnr.ca (Stuart MacMartin)
- Subject: Re: A modest proposal...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.153341.28494@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:33:41 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In article <724382816snx@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk writes:
- >In article <1992Dec11.172729.20503@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca (C. Armour-Kidson) writes:
- >> comp.lang.c++'ers,
- >>
- >> Due to amount of traffic on this group concerning Borland C++ and
- >> other DOS specific compilers, would it be rude to suggest that
- >> such material be moved to another newsgroup, say, comp.lang.c++.borland
- >> or comp.lang.c++.dos or something? I can't speak for everyone but
- >> it's getting hard to find articles specific to C++.
- >
- >Yes, I find these just as irrelevant as the numerous questions about HP,
- >Sun, X, NIH and Interviews :-)
- >
- >I agree that this group has (in practice, even if not in theory) too wide
- >a remit. It would be a good idea to separate out queries about specific
- >compilers (whether Borland or GNU or cfront).
- >
- >Whether it would be a good idea to have a separate group for each
- >compiler, or each operating system, or each hardware platform, I don't
- >know. If there were groups "comp.lang.c++.unix", "comp.lang.c++.dos" and
- >"comp.lang.c++.other", is there any chance that users (particularly new
- >users) would use the correct group for OS/compiler specific questions ?
- >
- >No, I thought not :-(
-
- There is a lot of traffic in this group, but a lot of it is from new users.
- How many of them hit the right group, don't ask FAQs, create new topics instead
- of following up an arbitrary one, and have appropriate keywords in the subject
- for kill files?
-
- I would be happy if people would mention Borland in the subject if the
- topic is primarily Borland, and if they would change the subject if the
- subject has changed, and if there was some common kill word for "My program
- doesn't work - can you find the bug?". My kill file does not screen out
- much noise. I wouldn't want to read this group without a threaded newsreader,
- though.
-
- Stuart
-
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