Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!inria!seti!jourdan From: jourdan@seti.inria.fr (jourdan martin joseph) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Structuring this newsgroup (was Re: C question [RTFM]) Message-ID: <247@seti.inria.fr> Date: 18 Aug 89 09:12:13 GMT References: <4615@eos.UUCP> <14866@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Reply-To: jourdan@inria.fr (Martin Jourdan) Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt, Le Chesnay, France Lines: 38 In article <14866@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt) writes: >[stuff about someone not knowing Dennis Richly (sic!)] > >Look, maybe we should create a "comp.lang.c.beginner" group or something. >I'm getting tired of reading these endless questions like "what's a comma >operator?", why do we have a main function?, how do I post to this network? >etc. etc. > >[...] >-- Ari Halberstadt '91, "Long live succinct signatures" I strongly support this wish! "comp.lang.c" is presently a mess in which you have to sort out interesting discussions from naive questions, and this is tiring. (When I left for holidays a month ago I had caught up with this newsgroup; two days ago I came back and there were more than 500 new postings!) I don't mean that naive questions should be totally forbidden. There exist quite a number of areas in which I would appreciate expert advice about naive problems, but they do not include the C language. One solution would be to have this group moderated, but I can already hear the flamethrowers preparing their weapons... What I propose instead is to structure "comp.lang.c" into a number of subgroups for easier sorting. Possible topics could include: language (as such) libraries interface with various OS beginners misc (do not forget it!) IMHO these topics should not be totally "waterproof" to each other, but at least this could be a start. How do you feel about that? -- Martin Jourdan , INRIA, Rocquencourt, France. My employers have no opinion and they guarantee my freedom of expression.