Split digitalmars.D newsgroup into .D and .D2 newsgroups?
Lutger
lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com
Tue May 12 13:49:32 PDT 2009
Walter Bright wrote:
> Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
>> I think it's a great idea, there's some decent arguments that they
>> should have more general names, but I like the idea that you'd always
>> know which group to look in for specific issues, even when we're at
>> D4!
>
> I do have reservations about the idea, based on experience with all the
> Digital Mars C++ newsgroups. There are too many, making for rather thin
> traffic. It's tedious to check them all for new postings, which means
> that that doesn't happen, and new postings often languish as a result.
>
> The main D n.g. gets a lot of action, which feeds on itself. I'm
> reluctant to mess with success.
Similar to what Knud Soerensen suggested:
Rename .learn to .programming and .d to .design or .future.
And while we're at it: merge .dwt .gnu .ide .debugger into .tools or .toolchain or something like that.
That way you end up with even less newsgroups!
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