Split digitalmars.D newsgroup into .D and .D2 newsgroups?

Tomas Lindquist Olsen tomas.l.olsen at gmail.com
Tue May 12 13:02:24 PDT 2009


On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Walter Bright
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
>>
>> I think it's a great idea, there's some decent arguments that they
>> should have more general names, but I like the idea that you'd always
>> know which group to look in for specific issues, even when we're at
>> D4!
>
> I do have reservations about the idea, based on experience with all the
> Digital Mars C++ newsgroups. There are too many, making for rather thin
> traffic. It's tedious to check them all for new postings, which means that
> that doesn't happen, and new postings often languish as a result.
>
> The main D n.g. gets a lot of action, which feeds on itself. I'm reluctant
> to mess with success.
>


It's a good point... I still don't think it's a bad idea, but I can
see your reason to be reluctant perfectly well.
However, why propose it if you don't like the idea in the first place ?


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