Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!unmvax!bbx!bbxsda!scott From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Algorithms, libraries, and comp.lang.c Message-ID: <1761@bbxsda.UUCP> Date: 1 Mar 91 15:14:14 GMT References: <27218@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) Organization: Basis International, Albuquerque, NM Lines: 30 In article <27218@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes: >>Could we please keep such queries OUT of this group? > >READ MY POSTING. I asked where I should post for an algorithm! I KNOW >that posting to comp.lang.c is not the best, but it IS THE CLOSEST I >CAN FIND AND UNTIL I FIND BETTER WHAT ELSE DO I DO? I was not asking >for an algorithm, just a query as to where other C programmers on the >net post their general algorithm questions. Q: How many comp.lang.c readers does it take to change a light bulb? A: none - the light bulb doesn't belong here Sorry folks. The recurring whining about inappropriate postings inspired that - but it makes a point. I've seen people suggest news groups that DON'T EVEN EXIST. It's one thing to suggest a newsgroup that is more likely to be helpful for that type of question. It's another thing to say "I don't care where you take it - just get it out of here" I'm starting to find the don't-post-that-here crap a lot more offensive than the occasional misdirected post. Certainly, it takes much longer to compose a don't-post-here response than it does to hit the 'n' key. I hope most of the readers here aren't as penny-wise-but-pound-foolish in their actual C programming. -- Scott Amspoker | Touch the peripheral convex of every Basis International, Albuquerque, NM | kind, then various kinds of blaming (505) 345-5232 | sound can be sent forth. unmvax.cs.unm.edu!bbx!bbxsda!scott | - Instructions for a little box that | blurts out obscenities.