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From: tannen AT crusader DOT stat DOT com (David Tannen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GNAT electronic mailing list ready for subscriptions!
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Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 15:35:15 -0400
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Mike,

[major snips]

>Well, I ws responding to what I've seen, on my end, as a certain demand
>for a GNAT-specific forum. The intent was to set up the list, then if
>the traffic warranted, convert it later to a GNAT-specific newsgroup.
>This is the path followed by djgpp, for example.

This absolutely makes sense to me.  GNAT is a portion of what is 
happening in the Ada market today.  And it makes sense for the GNAT
specific discussion to start out as a email list.

To insure that new Ada users (and GNAT users) know about the list
a regular posting could be made to this newsgroup about the list.

>Another (best) alternative, IMHO, is to do a call-for-votes (CFV) to create
>a GNAT newsgroup, maybe comp.lang.ada.gnat. That way, readers getting
>their news via digests won;t have to sort through the other CLA stuff.
>Anyone think a CFV is warranted?

I don't think so.

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