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- From: colin@agincourt.bsd.uchicago.edu (& Garrett)
- Subject: Wherefore this group?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.155027.9777@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:50:27 GMT
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- If someone is not sure that a problem they are encountering is caused by a
- bug or not, it would seem most appropriate to place the note in a
- newsgroup dedicated to the subject (c.s.n.sysadmin, programmer, misc).
- And since 'bug' is a catch-all category for any unexplained unsatisfactory
- behavior, until the problem is resolved, almost anything is a bug
- candidate. (What percentage of those "I think there's a bug in gcc..."
- notes pan out?)
- On the other hand, if something has been proved to be a bug, the most
- suitable place for a note explaining it is probably a static locus like a
- FAQ (preferably archived), rather than a forum for dynamic discussion like
- a newsgroup.
- Maybe that's why posts in here have been dwindling?
-
- colin
-