Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/07/27/22:19:47
In article <9807261625 DOT AA18550 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT frodo>,
sjm <sjm AT judgement DOT com> 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.
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