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From: mfeldman AT seas DOT gwu DOT edu (Michael Feldman)
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Subject: Re: GNAT electronic mailing list ready for subscriptions!
Date: 4 Oct 1995 23:33:27 -0400
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In article <dewar DOT 812745715 AT schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:
>i completely agree with Chris Morgan's view of a specialied Solaris news list.
>That was his original idea, and I fully supported it. It is not that I am
>irritated by Mike's suggestion, I am just not sure that it is the best choice
>given our environment. Note that Mike apparently did not understand Chris'
>intention, because he thought he was following it ... so just a 
>misunderstanding I guess (common enough in electronic discussions!)

Yep, it was a misunderstanding. OTOH, this list has been open only three
weekdays, and already has 110 subscribers. I don't know whether this
is large or small by list-land standards, but it's certainly a fair
number for three days. We've had a few interesting questions too.

What interests me about this is that all the questions so far have
come from list subscribers whose names I have never seen on CLA. 
Indeed, many of the 110 subscribers are not CLA posters, though
obviously they are CLA or djgpp readers, because the only announcements
of the list have been on those two newsgroups.

The message in it for me is that there are GNAT users out there who seem
to prefer discussing things in a forum that's less public than a generic
Ada newsgroup.

So the misunderstanding may in fact lead to an interesting, even useful,
result.

Mike Feldman