Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/08/15:25:22
if you included rhide too then you'd get more than 15% of course. how about
c.o.m.d.apps or something. and yes newusers is a *much* better word than
newbies. newbie has a sort of derogatory air about it, after all no-one likes
to think their problem/question is trivial.
regards,
nik
In article <E6qB89 DOT H5y AT boss DOT cs DOT ohiou DOT edu>, cigna AT helios DOT phy DOT OhioU DOT Edu (Dave Cigna) writes:
|> George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:
|> >Dave Cigna (cigna AT helios DOT phy DOT OhioU DOT Edu) wrote:
|> >: c.o.m.djgpp.newbie (there must be a better name for this!)
|> >
|> >comp.os.msdos.djgpp.tech-support perhaps? Or would this lead people to
|> >treat it as a paid-for service (i.e. demanding support rather than politely
|> >asking for it)?
|>
|> The idea is to let new users know that this is the place to ask basic
|> questions about getting up to speed. Of course they would quickly learn
|> that the FAQ answers virtually all of those questions. :)
|>
|> Someone suggested calling it c.o.m.djgpp.newuser, which sounds good to me.
|>
|> >: c.o.m.djgpp.graphics
|> >
|> >I'm not sure why exactly you chose graphics; I don't think there are that
|> >many graphics-related posts to the newsgroup/mailing list at present.
|>
|> Well, it seems like a healthy fraction of the posts are Allegro related.
|> I avoided mentioning Allegro by name, because I didn't want anyone to
|> think that I was casting disparagement on Shawn's fine work (I use it
|> myself.) Anyway, the idea behind splitting up a group is to separate
|> major categories of posts that are not of interest to all and that can
|> stand by themselves in their own forum.
|>
|> I did a quick and sloppy count of the djgpp posts that were still on
|> my local server. Out of a total of 992, I counted 141 with the word
|> "Allegro" in the subject line. This is a little less than %15, so it's
|> not a huge fraction, and they are not all graphics related. (Many concern
|> other parts of the Allegro library like keyboard handling, etc.) So,
|> perhaps c.o.m.djgpp.graphics is not a good choice. %15 is close to the
|> borderline, but it might be worth considering c.o.m.djgpp.allegro.
|>
|> -- Dave Cigna
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