Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!timbuk!cs.umn.edu!cybrspc!roy From: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Perl-Users Digest #552, "COPS in perl", newsgroup use Message-ID: Date: 10 Jan 91 06:41:12 GMT References: <28809:Jan902:52:4691@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN Lines: 27 brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: > > 2) I see this as the Perl-Users mailing list, > > Ah, that explains a lot. I suggest that the mailing list be renamed > (slowly, of course), or that a new newsgroup be formed to more > accurately reflect what the Perl community wants to talk about. Judging from the contents of comp.lang.perl, we're talking about what we want to talk about right now. Yours are the only complaints I have seen, Dan. > I'm not proposing creating or destroying a newsgroup, so this > discussion doesn't belong in news.groups. You seem to want to re-direct the flow of c.l.p, though, and that's nearly the same thing. We _are_ the Perl community, and I (for one) ain't complaining about what I see here. In fact, I appreciate it a lot. If what you're after is purely technical discussion and theoretical discourse, I suggest that the newsgroup you want does not yet exist. Feel free to champion its creation, but please do not seek to dampen c.l.p as it exists now. -- Roy M. Silvernail -- roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu - OR- cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu Department of redundancy department, or "Take the long way home...": main(){system("perl -e '$x = 1/50; print \"Still just my \\$$x!\n\"'");} [new year, new .sig, same ol' cyberspace]