Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery
From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: COPS in perl?
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.225747.4185@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 9 Jan 91 22:57:47 GMT
References: <9920@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> <26411:Jan900:15:5991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Followup-To: comp.lang.perl
Organization: North Coast Computer Resources (ncoast)
Lines: 29

As quoted from <26411:Jan900:15:5991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> by brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein):
+---------------
| In article <9920@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> df@sei.cmu.edu (Dan Farmer) writes:
| >   Now that the latest version of cops is out, I thought I'd solicit some
| > help from the net again.  Lots of people wanted me to rewrite the thing
| > in perl, and I'm willing, with a little help.
| 
| Ya know, wouldn't it be neat if people could use comp.lang.c as
| comp.prog.help-wanted.c? I've got lots of great programming projects (in
| C, of course) that I want to farm out to people, and I think a language
| newsgroup is the right place to advertise. Better yet: I've got an
| improved PD clone of ``man'' written in C. I think I'll post it to
| comp.lang.c, because anyone who cares about the C language must care
| about any program written in C.
+---------------

Show me the excessive volume in this newsgroup to justify a separate newsgroup
for applications vs. language issues, or a sources group, etc.  (Hint:  we got
only 6 articles for this newsgroup today.)

It looks to me like there's no real justification for this particular issue.
Chill out, okay?

++Brandon
-- 
Me: Brandon S. Allbery			    VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440
Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG		    Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN
America OnLine: KB8JRR			    AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88]
uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery    Delphi: ALLBERY