Date: Thu, 24 Feb 94 20:27:06 PST
From: stevev AT miser DOT uoregon DOT edu (Steve VanDevender)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Too many groups? (was: start a news group!)

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.