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From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
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Subject: Re: R: R: Watcom C++ opened?
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AndrewJ (luminous-is AT REMOVE DOT home DOT com) wrote:
: No.  But after spending months reading comp.lang.c, it has been drilled into my
: head that topicality is a Big Thing.  I've taken their view and now apply it to
: all newsgroups that seem to feel the same.

While I concur with your view, the rules (if there are any) are a
little more relaxed on c.o.m.d. (I do not make a statement regarding
comp.os.msdos.programmer.) If you think a tread is off-topic, the 
best you can do is ignore it or tell them where to go (which I seem to
recall you do - good!).

However some threads will never end and if it is off-topic, people
will point that out after they are sufficiently bored.

As I see it, this will help newbies going in the right direction while
not putting out any first spark of interest/idea/whatever.


Right,

						MartinS