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: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 02:07:26 +0000
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In article <331b2957 DOT 5096348 AT news DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>, "Alaric B. Williams"
<alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> writes
>On Mon, 3 Mar 1997 00:31:09 GMT, Francois Charton
><deef AT pobox DOT oleane DOT com> wrote:
>
>>DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>>Is it worth the bother? There are extremely few off-topic threads, which 
>>do not represent a threat for the group. 
>
>Hmmm. I find a lot of the stuff here to be boring, but only because
>it's people asking FAQs, in general. What would make /me/ happy is a
>c.o.m.djgpp.wizards or something where people chat about boot loaders,
>DPMI, and hardware level graphics under DPMI and such stuff (that's
>just the subset of wizard topics I could be vocal about; there's the
>ports of GNU tools like gdbm as well, etc) while the newbie stuff
>occurs in c.o.m.djgpp. That makes me sound like I hate newbies, I
>don't really...
>
I don't know if the following is a stupid idea or not, but.......
How about splitting the group???

c.o.m.djgpp 
Could be left to all you experts to discuss the high level stuff.

and

c.o.m.djgpp.newbies
Could be used by us newbies.For posting *ANY* "dumb newbie" questions we
have why we learn how to use djgpp and the odd C query.

I just asked in another NG about memory and speed pro's and con's using
structures and arrays.
I was unsure if this was a general C or DJGPP related question.(i.e.
Does it depend on the compiler or not.)
Given a newbies NG anyone could ask similar questions.

Experts could choose whether they wanted to bother with sifting through
newbie questions or not.
And newbies could subscribe to both NG's.


ALTERNATIVELY

A split with a
c.o.m.djgpp.ob off beat news group.
Where people could discuss the Quake source code stuff type.




I'll just go put my asbestos suit on, BRB. ;-)

-- 

David Jenkins