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From: mitch@arcturus.UUCP (Mitchell S. Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: splitting comp.lang.pascal, Turbo Pascal
Message-ID: <6253@arcturus>
Date: 11 Oct 89 16:47:33 GMT
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chl@cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) writes:

>In article <13380@reed.UUCP> reeder@reed.UUCP (Doug Reeder) writes:
>>
>>I would really appreciate it if people posting Turbo-specific questions
>>would include either 'Turbo' or 'TP' in the subject line of their postings,
>>so rn (the news reading progrom I use) can screen them out.

>Better, why not have a separate group comp.lang.pascal.turbo (there certainly
>seems to be enough material to fill such a group). What do people think, and
>who will volunteer to conduct the vote (I might even do it myself if my finger
>on the n key gets worn out anymore, but a real Turbo user could probably
>write a more convincing case)?


	(*S*I*G*H*)


	We've been through this before, gang.  It's not a good idea, for a
very simple reason.

	There are people who use Turbo who can benefit from non-Turbo
articles, and non-Turbo users who can benefit from Turbo articles.

	The solution to your exasperation is what Doug has suggested:  kill
files.  That's why they're there.  I read all the articles in this group,
and it really doesn't matter to me whether or not they're Turbo-specific
(despite the fact that I only use Turbo).  If a thread starts getting too
implementation-specific, I just stop reading the thread.  

	Now, why is that such a difficult method of dealing with this
situation?  Why lock yourselves out of the possibility of encountering
something you may well find useful?  If there were separate groups, some of
you might never get to see something that could answer a similar problem
you may be encountering.  Doesn't that make it worth it?

	Mitch @ Rockwell, Anaheim
	mitch@arcturus.UUCP

Disclaimer:	I must admit, however, that I don't read anything about VAX
		Pascal - I want nothing to do with those machines.  (...he said,
		whilst donning flame-proof duds... :^)