Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!harmonica.cis.ohio-state.edu!schanck From: schanck@harmonica.cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Schanck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: for sale ... ad nauseam Keywords: Re: for sale ... ad nauseam Message-ID: <32070@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 20 Jan 89 03:07:36 GMT References: <6803@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <1259@raybed2.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Christopher Schanck Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 19 In article <1259@raybed2.UUCP> rgc@raybed2.UUCP (RICK CARLE) writes: >This newsgroup seems to have 10 times the volume of any other newsgroup >that I belong to. After a 3-day weekend there is a 150-200 article >backlog. We need to divide (into sub-groups) and conquer. Perhaps a This is an all too valid point. There was a suggestion recently to split the group into programming/application. This seems a very reasonable way to do it to me. Witness the length and depth of the recent discussion on pointer subtraction in C. I am sure there are many who do little programming whom were driven nuts by the sheer volume of the discussion. Just my $.02 worth. Chris -=- "My brain is NOT a deadlock-free environment!!!!" --- Christopher Schanck, mammal at large. schanck@flounder.cis.ohio-state.edu