[OT] Re: Tango heap is dangerous

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Chris R. Miller
<lordsauronthegreat at gmail.com> wrote:
> BCS wrote:
>>
>> Reply to tim,
>>>
>>> I usually complain about news groups. I think they are so obsolete
>>> with  web message boards aka forums. I was really annoyied to find
>>> that  http://dsource.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=1 was closed down and
>>> replaced  with a newsgroup here. It's a major step BACKWARDS into the
>>> past. If all  this was on a forum we would not have to worry about
>>> identity stealing.
>>
>> FWIW: I *never* use forums if I have /any/ other choice. And that includes
>> just dropping using whatever the forums is about.
>>
>> If D only had a forum, in all likely hood, I would not use D.
>>
>> If tango had a NG, in all likely hood, I'd be using it right now (I don't
>> for that and other reasons).
>
> What about mailing lists, such as Google Groups?  They allow you to treat it
> as a forum or as a mailing list.
>

GG will not index news.digitalmars.com.  I guess there aren't enough D
users at Google to make them care.