Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/02/24/23:41:04
Stephen Turnbull writes:
> My two cents on naming:
>
> > gnu.gcc.djgpp.announce
> > gnu.gcc.djgpp.bugs
> > gnu.gcc.djgpp.help
> > gnu.gcc.djgpp.help.new-user
> > gnu.gcc.djgpp.misc
>
> (combining DJ's and Volker's ideas) is best because (a) MS-DOS is not
> an FSF project, whereas DJGPP arguably is; (b) we've been trying for a
> while (with fair success) to get people with C/C++/Objective-C
> questions to post to C lists, this should encourage the process by the
> proximity of the gnu.gcc groups; (c) this is semantically accurate.
I agree that the "gnu.gcc.djgpp.*" is probably more likely to be
accepted but note that people asking general C questions will
probably be turned away from the gnu.gcc.* groups, which are
specifically for GCC-related discussion.
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