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From: filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: comp.lang.pascal.(subgroups)?  (was Re: Homework questions)
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Date: 4 Oct 89 07:43:34 GMT
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In article <715@thor.wright.EDU> Brett Kottmann writes:
>	Perhaps it is time to split the group into lang.pascal and
>lang.pascal.wizards, like the unix group is.  Then those who don't wish
>to wade through often posted questions can unsubscribe from lang.pascal.

I suspect a more profitable split would be comp.lang.pascal and
comp.lang.pascal.turbo.  I know if I wasn't a Turbo Pascal programmer, I'd
be pretty annoyed by 10 messages all on the single topic of how to clear the
keyboard buffer in a particular implementation of Pascal under a particular
operating system.  More than half of the discussion here is Turbo-related,
or so it seems to me.  I suspect that the volume of TP discussion drives out
any messages relating to other Pascal implementations and/or generic Pascal
issues.

No, I don't want to handle any formal group splitting proceedings...

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