Proposal: digitalmars.D.tango newsgroup

[Bill Baxter]

Alexander Panek wrote:
> I'm not sure whether I proposed this before, but I do see a necessity
> for this. Even though there are forums and the ticketing system on
> dsource, the main discussions are going on on IRC, which is a fairly
> frail medium of communication. 
> 
> Given the latest discussions, rants and whatnot, a dedicated forum for
> Tango users and contributors within the context of D's official
> website, as well as its main medium of discussion - evidently the
> newsgroups -, would provide a possibility of better communication
> between rest-of-the-world and Tango (as in: the entirety of users,
> contributors, critics, etc.).
> 
> I would appreciate any comments regarding a new forum - please don't
> use this thread to reply to, or cite, previous postings about Tango's
> communication. 
> 
> Thank you in advance.

I say no.  There's not that much traffic on these newsgroups yet. 
Occasionally we get bursts like recently, but even then, the bulk of the 
messages have been on-topic.  Maybe not significant, but on-topic 
nonetheless.  So I don't see that having a moderated forum would really 
change much, except create fragmentation.  When D gets closer to having 
comp.lang.C++ levels of traffic and newbie questions, then it's worth 
considering.

The other downside to a moderated system is that since someone has to 
look at every message, there is inevitably some delay in message 
delivery, maybe up to 24hrs.  I'm just guessing though.

--bb