digitalmars.D vs digitalmars.D.announce

janderson askme at me.com
Thu Mar 8 23:51:19 PST 2007


Walter Bright wrote:
> janderson wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> My main (and minor) issue is when, say, a new release of X comes out, 
> then the thread diverges into something about Y. People interested in Y 
> won't find it by looking at the thread titles, and google's search will 
> probably bury it, too.
> 
[snip]

Agreed.  I also have appreciated when people have (in particular you) 
start a new thread for insanely long threads.

-Joel



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