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

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Tue May 12 17:52:35 PDT 2009


Derek Parnell wrote:
> 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)?
> 

Those who use Boost hang out in the users group. Those who are 
interested in the implementation of Boost hang out in the devel group, 
whether or not they have written a Boost library.

Andrei


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