[OT] Re: Tango heap is dangerous

[Bill Baxter]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Jarrett Billingsley
<jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

GG also has groups hosted on Google's servers.  I think that may be
more what the OP was saying.

There is a D group there already, but only spammers post to it.

--bb