Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!bu.edu!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!AI.MIT.EDU!tower From: tower@AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: The purpose of info-gcc. Message-ID: <9003012240.AA25266@pogo> Date: 1 Mar 90 22:40:14 GMT References: Sender: karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: gnu-misc-discuss@cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: Project GNU, Free Software Foundation, 675 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA +1 (617) 876-3296 Lines: 27 Date: 1 Mar 90 08:21:13 GMT From: wuarchive!texbell!texsun!newstop!grapevine!bitbug@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu (James Buster) Organization: Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc. In article <2201@milton.acs.washington.edu> skyhawk@milton.acs.washington.edu (Scott Northrop) writes: >In article <35328@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> bitbug@lonewolf.sun.com (James Buster) writes: >>How about the creation of a new newsgroup, gnu.design.discuss? > >I fail to see why gnu.misc.discuss is not adequate for design >discussions. It's there, why not use it? Because gnu.misc.discuss seems primarily for political discussions. I want a newsgroup exclusively for software design issues. Politics has its place, and it isn't there. gnu.misc.discuss is an appropriate forum for technical discussions. It be very nice if they drown out the flaming, which is what the large part of the political discussions here have been. If technical discussions get to have a significant volume here for a significant amount of time, we'll (the gnUSENET newsgroups and GNU Project mailing list coordinatoors), will consider adding a new group for them. thanx -len