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

Lutger lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com
Tue May 12 13:49:32 PDT 2009


Walter Bright 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.

Similar to what Knud Soerensen suggested: 

Rename .learn to .programming and .d to .design or .future. 

And while we're at it: merge .dwt .gnu .ide .debugger into .tools or .toolchain or something like that.

That way you end up with even less newsgroups!






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