digitalmars.D vs digitalmars.D.announce

[Knud Soerensen]

On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:15:08 -0800, Brad Roberts wrote:

> BCS wrote:
>> Knud Soerensen wrote:
>>> On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:34:38 -0800, Brad Roberts wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> It seems to me that the .announce newsgroup is being used as much 
>>>> more than an announcement list.  It's essentially a second version of 
>>>> digitalmars.D.  What would it take to change .announce back to being 
>>>> an announcement only newsgroup?  It'd help keep the noise down for 
>>>> people who only want to track, uh, announcements.
>>>>
>>>> Sigh,
>>>> Brad
>>>
>>>
>>> Brad what are you talking about ??
>>> Do you suggest that people shouldn't be allow to reply on announcement,
>>> or are you say that you news read is incapable of showing a thread 
>>> view ;-)
>> 
>> my thought exactly
> 
> The client I use is perfectly capable of threading, but that's not the 
> point.
> 
> The point is that the announcement newsgroup isn't being used as an 
> announcement newsgroup.  The purpose of having one separate from a 
> general discussion newsgroup is to have a high signal low noise specific 
> place for real announcements.
> 
> It's not a difficult concept.
> 
> Later,
> Brad

I get the concept but I don't understand your reason for the suggestion.
Why don't you just read the first post in each tread ?? (or get your
newsreader to filter everything else away.)

I really like the announcement newsgroup as it is.

Knud