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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Rationale for my posting draft V7 C description
Message-ID: <9770:Nov2004:40:4490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 90 04:40:44 GMT
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In article <1990Nov17.004557.14642@dg-rtp.dg.com> goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) writes:
> In article <19347:Nov1608:11:3390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>,
> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> > In article <2713@lupine.NCD.COM> rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) writes:
> > > This group is for discussing the use of (and the rules of) ANSI C.
> > No. It is for discussions of C. ANSI C is only a small but growing
> > corner of C.
> No.  He was talking about the cross-posting of this discussion to
> comp.std.c, which certainly *is* dedicated to ANSI C.   You did notice
> that the original guy had listed comp.std.c as well as comp.lang.c
> in his "Newsgroups" line, didn't you?

No, I didn't. If Ron hadn't thought that his comments were appropriate
for comp.lang.c, why would he have set followups to this group? There's
no reason I should have looked at the original newsgroups.

---Dan