Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!dsndata!wayne From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Call for Discussion: alt.cobol Message-ID: Date: 4 Dec 89 19:25:37 GMT References: <5301@garfield.MUN.EDU> <1810003@hpcll17.HP.COM> <6@jeffpc.eds.com> Sender: wayne@dsndata.UUCP Organization: Design Data Lines: 43 In-reply-to: jeff@jeffpc.eds.com's message of 3 Dec 89 06:34:33 GMT In article <6@jeffpc.eds.com> jeff@jeffpc.eds.com (Jeff Trim) writes: > [ ... ] > > I would agree with you here - but it seems like 'vmsnet' is a better place > to talk about COBOL. VMS supports it quite nicely - along with other > DEC Os's - here in the UNIX crowd you might run into it once or twice, > but definately not as often as you would on VMS machines. I think a call > for: > > vmsnet.cobol > > is in order. Your going to guarentee yourself MORE COBOL programs over > there than here I'd venture to guess. Besides any of the UNIX programmer > that want to read that group can easily get the feed - and most sites > are promising to support 'vmsnet' w/ or w/out a COBOL group. since when is usenet dedicated to unix only?? yes, it may have _started_ on unix systems, and there might be a higher percentage of unix systems on usenet than other systems, but it doesnt mean that usenet is for unix only. comp.os.vms is one of the highest volume groups on usenet. higher than comp.unix.questions, comp.unix.wizards, or comp.unix.xenix. it may not be as high as all of the unix groups combined, but it's high enough to show that there are a _lot_ of vms user on usenet. go ahead and create a vmsnet.cobol. you will be sorry. you would be better off creating vmsnet.comp.lang.cobol. there are a lot of C programs on vms too. what are you going to do, create vmsnet.c? if you are going to duplicate all of usenet under vmsnet, you would probably be wise to keep most of the names the same. one last thing... no, it is _not_ easy to get a vmsnet feed. none of my neighbors get it, none of my neighbors' neighbors get it. i am not about to pay long distance charges to get it. neither are most of the other sites that i know of. sure, a lot of the "backbone" sites have agreed to carry it, but that doesnt mean that is well connected yet. i certainly don't think that "most sites are promising to support 'vmsnet'". some sites, yes. many sites, maybe. most sites, no. -wayne Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com