From: cgf@cygnus.com (Christopher G. Faylor) Subject: Re: long long vs long 27 Jul 1998 22:19:47 GMT Message-ID: <6piue3$lv9$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <9807261625.AA18550.cygnus.gnu-win32@frodo> X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test63 (15 March 1998) In article <9807261625.AA18550.cygnus.gnu-win32@frodo>, sjm wrote: > >It was written: > > Long long vs long debate ... > > > > Please take this elsewhere! There's comp.lang.c, which is a much better > > forum than this mailing list. > > > > I implore you to spare the rest of us from this inane discussion. Would > > be nice if some of the posters would bother opening up a standard C > > reference before posting. > >Suggestion: Add "Re: long long vs long" to your kill file or filter or >whatever you use. Alternatively consider deleting anything with that subject >without reading. I measured the time on my keyboard for deleting similar email >messages. Using vm under emacs I was able to delete in an average of .3 >seconds per message if I did not bother to read the message. That's frankly >what I do with 95% of the traffic on this list. If it takes you longer I >suggest changing mailers. I agree with whoever posted this. The "long long" topic has very little to do with gnu-win32. When a message thread starts moving outside of the purpose of a mailing list, the polite thing to do is to move it elsewhere. >As long as there is resistance to turning this list into a newsgroup where it >would be easier to split into subgroups then I have little sympathy for >complaints about off point discussion. Since this is the only forum for >discussing cygwin related stuff we shouldn't be too restrictive about how >closely related the discussion must be. Resistance? Where is there resistance? If you'd like to spearhead the campaign to turn this into a newsgroup, please feel free to do so. The fact that this is not a newsgroup is one more reason why off-topic threads such as this one should be squashed. Some people who are subscribed to the gnu-win32 mailing list are actually paying for their connections. There's no reason for such people to pay for "long long" discussions. -- cgf@cygnus.com "Everything has a boolean value, if you stand http://www.cygnus.com/ far enough away from it." -- Galena Alyson Canada