digitalmars.D vs digitalmars.D.announce

[janderson]

Knud Soerensen wrote:
> 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

Personally I don't mind announcements being replied to however they 
often they do go off track.  Things like feature start being discussed 
ect...  Also there have been a few announcements that I would not 
consider announcements.

Sometimes someone mentions something they posted a few days back and I 
don't have a clue.  It often turns up buried in the announce group.

I think a polite user-driven redirection email would suffice.  ie -> see 
answer in newsgroup.X.  Or perhaps a little message associated with each 
newsgroup on the Digitalmars webpage detailing what each is about would 
help (and a link to some wiki page for more details).

I'm however not to fussed about this issue either.