From: David Jenkins <me AT jenkinsdavid DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: c.o.m.djgpp retro-moderated?
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 03:21:24 +0000
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In article <E6oFB4 DOT 83L AT boss DOT cs DOT ohiou DOT edu>, Dave Cigna
<cigna AT helios DOT phy DOT OhioU DOT Edu> writes
>Eli Zaretskii  <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>>David Jenkins wrote:
>>> How about splitting the group???
>>
>>
>
>Having said that, I propose a small hierarchy of groups:
>
>c.o.m.djgpp                 what doesn't fit in the other groups
>c.o.m.djgpp.newbie          (there must be a better name for this!)
Speaking as a newbie I prefer c.o.m.djgpp.newbie maybe newuser.As long
as its obvious.Newbies will see the newbie NG and jump straight in with
their questions.
>c.o.m.djgpp.graphics 
>c.o.m.djgpp.announce        mirror of the mailing list
I second this vote for these NG's
>
>Note the the announce group could be fully moderated without much 
>effort.
It would just be used for people announcning new libraries or updates to
libraries or software like Rhide.
I sift through the NG several times in a session looking for update info
on Rhide or Allegro and others.
Then I sift out stuff thats graphics related looking for stuff that
might help me, so I don't have to post a question.
Then I sift for stuff that's a newbie type question.How/why does
Rhide/Allegro or djgpp do/use this/that/other.


A simple post by whoever's in charge once a week to each NG listing the
NG's and what they're for and what's suitable for each NG.

I used to be into Quake, I think they have 4 or 5 NG's covering
different aspects of a GAME we're talking about a compiler package,
something infinitley more complex.
So if they can justify those NG's why cant we.

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