From: gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: [ALLEGRO] related stuff ... read and pass it on ;) Date: 26 Feb 1997 22:08:46 GMT Organization: Oxford University Message-ID: <5f2c9e$cdp@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <01a8e7b0$75c010e0$4d62e2c1 AT cclub DOT sorostm DOT ro> NNTP-Posting-Host: mc31.merton.ox.ac.uk Lines: 25 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp TBD (root AT cclub DOT sorostm DOT to) wrote: : hi there ... : i've seen in this newsgroup a lot of messages about Allegro : both good and bad (look at Paul Derbyshire vs All dispute) so : why not made a newsgroup dedicated too Allegro ??? why not : comp.os.msdos.djgpp.allegro ??? it will easy for me (us) to : look for allegro stuff and will be also easy for Shawn to see : user problems ... I don't think there is enough traffic to warrant splitting this group, and it would require a decision about splitting the mailing list, etc... To create a new comp.* group you would need at least 100 'yes' votes and at least two thirds of all the votes to be 'yes'; I'm not sure you'd get this. Besides, I don't think 80 or so messages per day is excessive. : another ... allegro coders : let's make a gui designer ... This sounds like a good idea; somewhat like Windows resource editors. Go for it :) -- George Foot Merton College, Oxford.