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From: schaut@madnix.UUCP (Rick Schaut)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Structuring this newsgroup
Summary: Think about ths for a second!
Message-ID: <840@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 10 Sep 89 01:39:02 GMT
References: <4615@eos.UUCP> <14866@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <247@seti.inria.fr> <1463@hcx1.UUCP> <1559@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: schaut@madnix.UUCP (Rick Schaut)
Organization: ARP Software, Madison, WI
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In article <1559@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
| In article <1463@hcx1.UUCP>, leoh@hardy (Leo Hinds) writes:
|  `
|  `I too find the volume in this group to be more than I can reasonably follow, 
|  `but would NOT suggest the forming of ".beginner" (or similar) but ".advanced". 
|  `
|  `This way a beginner posting a question, who might (reasonably) deduce that 
|  `"comp.lang.?" (in this case C) to be the right place to ask his question, 
|  `would be correct.
|  `
| Right, the default should be the ``garbage'' newsgroup. Why not create a
| comp.lang.c.wizards (or .experts) group?

And if you were a beginner and had a question, would you ask other
beginners or the 'wizards'?  It's funny, but the Borland programming
forum on Compu$erve gets as much, if not more, traffic from beginners
as this group gets, and their questions are treated as respectfully
and as seriously as the difficult stuff.  I have yet to see the letters
'RTFM' posted in a message there.  Can't you people grow up and remember
that you were once beginners at C as well?


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