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

Derek Parnell derek at psych.ward
Tue May 12 15:11:49 PDT 2009


On Tue, 12 May 2009 15:59:05 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Walter Bright wrote:
>> BLS wrote:
>>> No, promoting D also means having a couple of newsgroup entries each day.
>>> Otherwise you'll have several "10 entries a month" D newsgroups and 
>>> this imo not very appealing to new visitors.
>>> In other words, Bier erm, quantity rulez.
>> 
>> Yeah, I had second thoughts along those same lines.
> 
> I think -users and -developers should work. It works for Boost very well.

I'm not used to Boost groups, so who is expected to post to "-users"? Are
they users of D (that is, application developers)? Who posts to
"-developers"? Are they the people developing D itself or
application/tool/library developers (otherwise known as users of D)?

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