Need: New newsgroup digitalmars.D.gripe

[jicman]

Some of us do not have the luxury of being able to use newsgroup clients at our
companies.  They are blocked.  Heck, they even blocked google groups. :-(


Bruno Medeiros says...
>
>Brad Roberts wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Jack Thorpe wrote:
>> 
>>> I hate to start another flame war, but I hate flame wars!
>>>
>>> I come here to digitalmars.D.announce to find the latest releases of D and new D
>>> software. But today, I almost can't find Walter's DMD 149 anouncement on the
>>> first page anymore, and I checked late last night less than 11 hours ago!
>>>
>>> And really, I don't have time to scan three pages of new postings everyday :)
>>>
>>> Please, could we start a  digitalmars.D.design  newsgroup and let this list be
>>> just for annoucements of new D software releases?
>>>
>>> Thank you, now flame away ;)
>>>
>>> -- Jack
>> 
>> I too wish .announce was reserved for announcements and discussions moved 
>> to a more appropriate forum.  There's always .D for generic arguments. :)
>
>If the discussion is closely related to the release, I'll probably keep 
>it on .announce, but if it is more big, significant or general than 
>that, yes, the best is to cross post to D (like Bools Reloaded), and 
>then stop replying on .announce.
>
>Regardless, the original poster should get a better newsgroup client!
>
>-- 
>Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
>http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D